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When IKEA first came to the US, American customers were buying flower vases to drink from, because IKEA’s own drinking glasses seemed too small to them.
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Arthur Dent may have been on to something; people are least inclined to take risks on Thursdays.
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To fund his PhD Neil DeGrasse Tyson almost became a stripper. After watching friends set fire to their asbestos-lined underwear at a show, he decided to teach instead.
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Under evolutionary pressure from poaching, more and more elephants in Mozambique are born without tusks.
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There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud. CARL SANDBURG
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Whales lower their voice to a whisper when communicating with their young to keep them safe from predators.
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In 2010, a debate between the two candidates for prime minister of Australia had to be rescheduled because it conflicted with the final of Masterchef.
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An ENDLING is the last surviving individual of a species.
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The Tour de France employs a specialist team to adapt or destroy all images of genitals that people paint on the route.
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"We will be restoring normality just as soon as we are sure what is normal anyway." DOUGLAS ADAMS
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The steeds of knights were not massive, powerful horses - knights actually rode horses the size of modern ponies.
(Image: Miles Wolstenholme; CC BY.)
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Word of the day: GRAMMATICASTER - someone who is annoyingly pedantic about grammar
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In 2016, a Florida man threw an alligator through a restaurant's drive-through window.
He was charged with "assault with a deadly weapon".
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In 1992, St. Liborius Church in St. Louis, Missouri closed due to lack of parishioners.
It is now an indoor skatepark.
(Image: Sk8 Liborious; image used with permission.)
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Your heartbeat will synchronise with your date's if the date is going well.
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Town planners in Porters Lake, Nova Scotia seem to have run out of ideas.
There are streets named "This Street", "That Street", and "The Other Street".
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In ancient Greece, small penises were preferred to large ones.
A small penis symbolized self-control and intelligence.
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Word of the Day: GRAMMAGRAM — a word or phrase whose pronunciation can be expressed as a sequence of letters. For instance, SX for ‘Essex’, NME for ‘enemy’, or ICQ for ‘I seek you’.
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American doctors have a phrase for a diagnosis that is usually the most obvious answer: ‘When you hear hoofbeats, think horses, not zebras.’
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When a male grey wolf takes over a pack, he adopts his rival’s puppies
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On 10 March 2015, Ireland accidentally legalised 125 drugs for one day, including ketamine, ecstasy and crystal meth.
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"If I cannot swear in heaven I shall not stay there." MARK TWAIN
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‘Nuair a chacann gé, cacann siad go léir’ is an Irish proverb about group mentality that literally translates as ‘When one goose shits, they all shit’.
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JRR Tolkien invented Ents because when he was a schoolboy, he had been disappointed that Birnam Wood did not really "come to Dunsinane" in Macbeth.
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Word of the Day: ORTHINOLOGY (neologism) — word-botching. For instance, saying ‘orthinology’ instead of ‘ornithology’ and ‘word-botching’ instead of ‘bird-watching‘.
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A Quite Interesting Twitter feed from the team behind the BBC TV show QI.
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