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For every mile of British railway laid in the 19th century, a thousand pounds was spent on booze by the construction teams (equivalent to £25,000 today).

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‘D’ä e å, å i åa ä e ö’ is a Swedish dialectal phrase that means ‘There is a stream, and in the stream there is an island’.

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The longest anyone’s left a light on is 120 years; a Californian fire station has a bulb that's been constantly illuminated since 1901. (Image by Rjaerial CC BY-SA 4.0)

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Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance. KURT VONNEGUT

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Last month, gravitational wave scientists took suggestions for the collective noun for a group of black holes. They've narrowed down the list to ten, and are considering: graveyard, horde, perforation, swarm, colloquium, disaster, sieve, brood and doom.

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Naming a cow can increase the milk yield by 500 pints a year. Image: Martin Vorel (CC0)

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In the late 19th century, German language purists wanted to substitute the word ‘Perücke’ (‘wig’) for ‘Kahlkopfverlegenheitsabhelfer’, which means ‘Bald-Head-Embarrassment-Remedy’.

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In the early 1990s, a group of New York performance artists swapped the voice boxes of about 300 G.I. Joe and Barbie dolls and put them back in stores. A G.J. Joe would say ‘Will we ever have enough clothes?’ and a Barbie would say ‘Vengeance is mine!’ and ‘Eat lead, Cobra!’

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The Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock because they were about to run out of beer.

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Open plan offices increase worker stress, blood pressure, and turnover.

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Japanese streets typically have no names. Instead, blocks are used as the unit for addresses: what we call a street is just an empty space between blocks in Japan.

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Just like humans, octopuses have a specific arm they prefer to use.

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Phrase of the Day: ‘avoir le cul entre deux chaises’ (French) - to be torn by a dilemma (literally ‘to have one’s arse between two chairs’).

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In Utrecht, for George Orwell's birthday, local artists put party hats on the city's CCTV cameras. 📷:Dutch artists 'Front404'

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NASA's top priority this decade is probing Uranus. (Image: Judy Schmidt; CC BY.)

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Last year, a nine-year old female macaque at the Takasakiyama Natural Zoological Garden violently overthrew the previous male leader. She is the one of the first known female macaques to contest leadership of her troop.

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Though eels have been studied since ancient Greece, scientists still aren't sure how they have sex.

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Antarctica has just had its coldest winter on record. Between April and September the average temperature was - 61 degrees Celsius.

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The first known chili recipe used human flesh for meat.

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Scientists are developing new laser scanning techniques to determine just how fat the fat bears of Fat Bear Week are. (Image: Katmai National Park and Preserve.)