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Light travels faster than sound. That's why some people seem bright until they speak. PHYLLIS DILLER
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Last year, human triphallia — having three penises — was reported for the first time in history.
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Zebras are black with white stripes, not white with black stripes.
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Over 26 years, zoologist Jennifer Owens recorded 2,673 different species living in her small suburban garden in Leicester, including 474 plants, 1,997 insects, 54 species of birds and seven mammals.
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Earlier this year, New Zealand police tried a new tactic to get protestors to disperse.
They played James Blunt's "You're Beautiful" at high volume.
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In 1889, there were 12 postal deliveries a day in London.
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Neptune is the only planet in the Solar System that is never visible to the naked eye.
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For 3 months in 1530, Michelangelo was in hiding from the pope in a room under the Medici Chapel of the Basilica di San Lorenzo. He covered the walls in graffiti which were not discovered until 1976.
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The botanist Edward Salisbury once managed to grow 300 plants from the debris he’d collected in his trouser turn-ups, comprising over twenty different species of weeds.
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The chocolatey filling between the wafers in a KitKat is made out of recycled KitKats.
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Word of the Day: TAKIWATANGA (Maori) — autism, literally ‘his or her own time and space’.
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Peter Mayhew, who played Chewbacca in the Star wars movies, spoke his lines in English, they were later dubbed into Wookie.
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Crows can combine several lengths of stick to create a single tool – a skill only observed previously in humans and apes.
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In 2018, Munafri Arifuddin ran unopposed for mayor of Makassar, Indonesia.
He lost the election to "none of the above".
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As of 2021, the three most popular flag emoji are the rainbow flag (🏳️🌈), the U.S. flag (🇺🇸), and the red flag (🚩).
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This house (located in Rockport, Massachusetts) was constructed entirely from newspaper, glue, and varnish.
It has so far survived 96 years of Massachusetts winters.
(Image: Danielle Walquist Lynch; CC BY.)
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HYPNIC JERK - the sensation that jolts you awake as you’re about to nod off.
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During WWII, a Great Dane named Juliana was awarded a medal by Blue Cross for her heroism in disarming a German incendiary device.
She urinated on the bomb.
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Mel Blanc - the voice of Porky Pig - specified in his will that his epitaph should be "THAT'S ALL FOLKS".
(Image: Robert A. Estremo; CC BY-SA.)
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In the USA, there are eleven times as many monuments to mermaids as there are to congresswomen.
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Stressed men prefer big butts.
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During WWII, Max von Laue and James Franck’s Nobel prize medals were dissolved in acid and sat on a shelf in a Danish lab to hide them from the Nazis. Later the gold was recovered and the medals were recast.
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Salamanders can count to three (but no further).
Image: Camazine
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The term ‘First World War’ was coined by the Times correspondent Charles à Court Repington in his diary entry for 10 September 1918, before the war had ended. He thought the term could be used as a warning for future generations.
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By 2100, dead Facebook users will outnumber the living.
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A Quite Interesting Twitter feed from the team behind the BBC TV show QI.
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