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Frequent watchers of online cat videos are shyer than those who don't often watch cat videos, but they are also nicer people.
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Word of the Day: PODSNAPPERY - an absolute refusal to accept unpleasant truths.
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Rocket scientists are not, on average, smarter than the general population.
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An ATOMIC TYPO is a typo that results in a correctly spelled word, just not the one you intended to write.
For instance, you might type "pubic" for "public".
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The first woman to circumnavigate the globe was the botanist Jeanne Baret, who disguised herself as a male valet on de Bougainville’s expedition of 1766-69.
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Pet snails can’t travel on high speed trains in France unless they have a ticket.
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In 2019 a Japanese student of the history of ninjas received top marks for writing her essay in invisible ink.
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In Polish slang, if you want to say that someone is overdressed, you can say that they are ‘dressed up like a rat for the opening of a sewer’.
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We've all got a story about family board games at Christmas, but Sara's is a tough one to beat.
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In an experiment conducted in Moscow, people had to answer questions about politics and have a drink every 12 minutes. The study ran for 1.5 hours and has shown that the more people drank, the more they began to support the government.
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The Cuban giant owl (which went extinct over 9,000 ears ago) was flightless, stood over three feet tall and weighed nine kilos (imagine a big turkey armed with massive claws).
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A 2012 study suggested that men who wear pink earn more than those who are not willing to wear pink.
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Workers who only come into office on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays are sometimes referred to as TWaTs.
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50% of Facebook Messenger's voice traffic comes from Cambodian users because the Khmer language is so difficult to type.
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Until the founding of the Vegetarian Society in 1847, vegetarians were usually known as Pythagoreans.
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Teenagers literally feel more than adults do, as our sense of touch peaks between 16 and 18.
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Peacocks fake orgasm noises to trick peahens into thinking they’re more sexually active.
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In 1820, three men died in an avalanche in the Alps and fell into a glacier. Having studied the speed of the glacier, it was predicted by a geologist that their remains would emerge at the bottom in forty years time. They were found intact in 1861.
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Word of the Day: TORTITUDE — a difficult character that tortoiseshell cats are rumoured to have. (📷: James Petts.)
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If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn’t.
EMERSON M. PUGH
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In 2001, a Belgian beer society convinced a local primary school to offer beer at lunch rather than fizzy drinks.
The move was intended to prevent childhood obesity, but proved unpopular with parents.
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This dog from Tbilisi, Georgia is featured on Google Maps where she has several five star reviews. (h/t and image: Egor Mikhailov).
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Doing a Monty Python silly walk for only eleven minutes a day is as beneficial for your health as the recommended 75 minutes of vigorous physical activity a week. (Study: bit.ly/3jutecL; 📷: Jazeen Hollings.)
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Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless. BILL WATTERSON
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The Peel P50, the smallest mass-produced car ever made, was advertised as being able to carry ‘one adult and a shopping bag’. It has no reverse gear but has a handle on the back: you get out of the car, pick the handle, and turn the car around. [📷: Philip (flip) Kromer.]
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A Quite Interesting Twitter feed from the team behind the BBC TV show QI.
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