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Word of the day: FYLLEANGST (Norwegian) - the unsettling feeling one has the day after drinking when you can’t remember what you did while you were drunk
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The Australian state of Victoria has two different mountains called Mount Buggery.
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"It's my belief we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain." LILY TOMLIN
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Something to think about when you put your Christmas decorations up. #QI 🎄
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A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale. MARIE CURIE
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In 1790, Xavier de Maistre, an aristocrat under house arrest in Italy, wrote up a tour of his bedroom into a book.
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Dogs can have cat allergies (and vice versa).
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In 1938, the German army selected Werner Goldberg to appear on recruitment posters as "the ideal German soldier".
Two years later, he was discharged from the army because his father was Jewish.
(Both Goldberg and his father survived the Holocaust.)
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Adults spend about half their time daydreaming.
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The world's most overdue library book was 287 years overdue when it was returned.
Colonel Robert Walpole borrowed it from Sidney Sussex College in Cambridge in 1667.
His biographer found it among his papers, and returned it to the college in 1956.
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Phrase of the Day: FART IN A COLANDER (naval slang) — describing indecisive behaviour: ‘rushing about like a fart in a colander, not sure which hole to come out of’.
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According to a study by Cardiff University, both men and women are judged to look better when they are wearing a face mask.
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In 2008, Barry Farrimond, the actor who plays Ed Grundy in The Archers invented an officially recognised new knot, the Farrimond friction hitch.
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"Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear." OSCAR WILDE
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Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
CYRIL CONNOLLY
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Each ear of corn always has an even number of rows.
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The technology for the Roomba was originally created for military robots clearing minefields.
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Bees can count to four but score higher marks when punished for getting their answers wrong.
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In 2019, climbers left an estimated 8,000 kg of poo at a single camp on Mount Everest.
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It would take around 3,000 years to count all the brain cells in a single human brain.
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An early form of the ‘round robin’ letter was used by British Navy sailors petitioning their commanding officers– signatures were arranged in a circle around the demands to prevent the ring-leader being identified.
Image: The National Archives
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"[Australians] spend half of any conversation insisting that the country's dangers are vastly overrated... and the other half telling you how six months ago Uncle Bob was driving to Mudgee when a tiger snake slid out from under the dashboard and bit him on the groin." BILL BRYSON
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In the 1950s, the French government’s pro-sobriety campaign featured posters saying ‘No More Than a Litre of Wine a Day’.
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It is illegal to mispronounce "Arkansas" while in Arkansas.
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According to research from the University of Essex, the world's most boring person is probably a data analyst who lives in a small town and who enjoys watching TV.
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A Quite Interesting Twitter feed from the team behind the BBC TV show QI.
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