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From 1912 to 1948, when art competitions were a part of the Olympic Games, three sculptors received Olympic medals for the medals they had created.
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Despite almost turning to ‘soup’ in the cocoon, butterflies can recall trauma experienced as a caterpillar.
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A study of compound swears used in Reddit comments from 2006 to 2020 has found that the most popular combination is ‘dumbass’ (3.6 million comments). The 444 combinations used only once include ‘sleazenozzle’ and ‘bastardbucket’. (📷 and the study: Colin Morris, @HalfEatenScone.)
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One factory in Hull produces 900 million Yorkshire puddings a year.
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Word of the Day: DEUTERAGONIST - the second most important person in a story, after the protagonist.
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In 2020 Mathdaniel Squirrel won Name of the Year, beating Courvoisier Dingle, Beanbag Amerika and mathematician Dr Reason Machete.
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The knobbles on our kneecaps are as individual as our fingerprints or irises.
Image: Jörg Bittner Unna
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Physicists at Cornell University have proposed that there is a second, twin Universe, a mirror image of our own, that is running backwards in time.
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Cat owners are sometimes called "Dosenöffner" - can openers - in German.
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Lemmings don’t jump off cliffs deliberately. The 1958 Disney documentary that perpetuated the myth actually pushed a load of them off a Canadian cliff.
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During World War 1, the Germans suspended sausage making in order to increase the supply of cows’ intestines used to line the hydrogen chambers in zeppelins. A single zeppelin required the innards of quarter of a million cows.
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Because of its use in holy communion, the Vatican has one of the highest per capita consumption of wine of any country.
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Isaac Newton was not a popular lecturer at Cambridge. According to Newton’s assistant, ‘so few went to hear Him, & fewer [...] understood him’ that he ‘read to the Walls.’
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Honeybees and humans are the only animals we know that can be taught the difference between even and odd numbers.
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Word of the day: HOUSE-DOVE (16th century) - a person who prefers to stay at home rather than go out
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A small bog is called a 'boglet'.
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Plankton don’t swim, they float. Anything that looks like plankton but actively swims is called nekton.
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Introverted Chinese millennials have been known to call themselves jingfen, or ‘spiritually Finnish’.
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If a dog jumps up into your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer. ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD.
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Being infected with a parasite from cat poop makes you more likely to start a company.
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England gets more tornados per sq km than anywhere else on earth.
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The frequency of a pig’s grunts reveal its personality.
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Being in love makes food taste sweeter.
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There are 4.5 hectares of forest per person in Finland, where deforestation has been illegal since 1886.
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When jelly babies first grew popular in the Victorian era, they were marketed as ‘unclaimed babies’.
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