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Mars sometimes hums, and scientists don’t know why.
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In gay slang, a "friend of Dorothy" is a gay man.
During the 1980s, the US military conducted a massive investigation to find out who Dorothy was.
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"Go and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes." NEIL GAIMAN
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In the 1990s, Mark Strong auditioned for the role of a Bond villain. He failed the audition because he had a severe hangover after a night out with his friend Daniel Craig.
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On his deathbed, surgeon Joseph Henry Green was checking his pulse, and his last word was ‘Stopped’.
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"It's hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning." BILL WATTERSON
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Humans used to have a bone behind the knee called the fabella, but evolved not to have them. In 2019 the fabella was found to to be making a comeback. No one knows exactly why. (Image Jmarchn and Mikael Häggström CC BY-SA 3.0)
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About 40% of the ants in an ant colony are "lazy" and spend most of their time just sitting around.
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"Fart" is one of the oldest words in the English language.
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You are more likely to get a virus from a religious website than a porn website.
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Scholars in the Middle Ages popped the ‘b’ into the word debt because of its Latin origins (debitum), despite the fact that it came to English from the French word dette and was never pronounced. They same applies to doubt, plumber, subtle, indict and island.
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We recommend against making plans for September 24, 2182.
There is a one-in-1,175 chance that this asteroid will collide with Earth on that day.
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After Mo Saleh joined Liverpool F.C, hate crimes against Muslims in the Liverpool area dropped 16%.
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Dogs will ignore their owners if they know they are lying.
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Willem Arondeus was an openly gay Dutch artist.
In 1943, he bombed the public records office in Amsterdam to prevent the identification of Jews by the Nazis.
His last words before being executed by the Gestapo were "tell the people that homosexuals can be brave!".
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American baseball player Rube Waddell (1876-1914) was so fond of puppies fans of the opposing team would bring their dogs to games and hold them up. Waddell would run over to play with them instead of focusing on the game.
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The longest-running lab experiment started in 1927 and measures how fast pitch falls from a funnel. Nine drops have fallen so far, showing pitch isn’t a solid, but a liquid 100 billion times more viscous than water. [📷: John Mainstone, University of Queensland.]
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"Computers in the future may have only 1000 vacuum tubes and perhaps weigh only 1.5 tons."
Popular Mechanics, 1949
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We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true. ROBERT WILENSKY.
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Psychopaths tend not to procrastinate.
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At one point, Prince William and Prince Harry changed the Queen's voicemail to:
"Hey wassup! This is Liz. Sorry I'm away from the throne. For a hotline to Philip, press one. For Charles, press two. And for the corgis, press three."
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The Green Zone golf course straddles Finland and Sweden (seven holes in Finland and 11 in Sweden). On hole six, balls stay in the air for approximately an hour and three seconds due to the countries' differing time zones.
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In 2009, Ontario, Canada passed a law stating that reflexively saying "sorry" would not count as an admission of guilt in a court of law.
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Mark Twain's definition of a classic was "something that everyone wants to have read but no one wants to read."
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The Irish phrase for ‘fancy seeing you here’ or ‘you never know what you might chance upon!’ is ‘is fánach an áit a bhfaighfeá gliomach’, which literally means ‘what an odd place to find a lobster’.
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