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In 2009, a set of identical twins was arrested for a jewelry heist in Germany.
DNA evidence proved that at least one of them was at the crime scene. But since it was impossible to prove which individual was guilty, both were acquitted.
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"If an optimist had his left arm chewed off by an alligator, he might say... "Well this isn't too bad... at least nobody will ever ask me if I'm left-handed or right-handed," but most of us would say something more along the lines of, "Aaaaaa! My arm!" LEMONY SNICKET
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Because the video for Janet Jackson’s song ‘Rhythm Nation’ contained a natural resonant frequency for a certain model of laptop hard drive, it would crash laptops playing the video. It could even crash laptops within earshot which weren’t playing it.
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The Michelin of Michelin starred restaurants is the same Michelin that makes tyres.
They started producing the guide - and reviewing restaurants - in order to encourage people to drive more.
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Doctors in Canada can prescribe a visit to a national park.
(Image: Pjalily6666661; CC BY-SA.)
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The most common lake name in Finland is Mustalampi, ‘Black Lake’. The second most common lake name is Paskalampi, ‘Shit Lake’.
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The Khasi people of India make bridges by shaping live tree roots.
Since the trees and roots are still alive, a living bridge can last as long as the tree lives - hundreds of years.
(Image: Anselmrogers; CC BY-SA.)
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When this sea slug gets parasites, it rips its own head off and grows an entire new body.
(Image: Steve Childs; CC BY.)
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Ecstasy was patented in 1913 as a diet pill.
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There is a cafe for writers in Tokyo that won't let you leave until you've met your writing goals.
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Like if you think Sandi Toksvig should be the next Bond villain.
RT if you think Sandi Toksvig should be the next Bond.
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In 40 U.S. states, the highest-paid public employee is an American football or basketball coach at a state college.
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Even extroverts find socialising tiring.
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A wasp named after Idris Elba is saving Mexico’s broccoli crop from parasites.
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Most of the bacteria found during a recent study of the microbiome of the London Underground were previously unknown to science.
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You can tell a legless lizard from a snake because it blinks.
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"To summarise the summary of the summary: people are a problem." DOUGLAS ADAMS
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If you have a song stuck in your head before you go to sleep, you are much more likely to sleep poorly.
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If you want to use a photo of the Eiffel Tower for commercial purposes, you need permission if it was taken at night but not if it was taken in the day. The copyright on the tower and its image has expired, but the copyright on the tower illumination installed in 1989 has not.
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The longest cell in the human body is a metre long. The axons in the sciatic nerve are single threadlike cells a few micrometres in diameter that reach from the base of the spine to the end of the big toe.
Image: KDS4444, CC BY-SA 4.0
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In order to test in-flight wifi, Boeing fills their planes with potatoes.
Potatoes interfere with signals the same way as the human body.
The project was called Synthetic Personnel Using Dialectic Substitution (SPUDS).
(Edited image: Superjet International)
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PLEONASM is the term for redundant expressions - like "ATM machine", "hot water heater", or "free gift".
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You used to be able to eat dinner inside a taxidermied blue whale. Now you can't, because of two people who should be very ashamed of themselves. 👀🐳
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Streaming a movie on a gaming console can use 45 times more power than a normal streaming device - gaming consoles aren’t good at using the minimum required energy for the task at hand.
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Since he tried to record everything that was ever known into his books, St Isidore of Seville (560 - 636CE) is the unofficial patron saint of the Internet.
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A Quite Interesting Twitter feed from the team behind the BBC TV show QI.
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