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"We are always living in the final days. What have you got? A hundred years or much, much less until the end of your world." NEIL GAIMAN
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There are at least 18 known books that are bound in human skin.
(Image: Wellcome Images.)
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People have been making cheesecake in Greece for at least 4000 years.
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Books about achieving success are usually written by people whose main success in life is selling a book about achieving success. VIKTOR PELEVIN
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Wembley Stadium has more toilets than any other sporting venue in the world, enough for a new toilet every day for 7 and a half years (if you wanted to try them all).
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Word of the day: RAGGABRASH - someone who is absolutely, completely disorganised
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Some elephants in Angola have learned to detect and avoid landmines. They also warn other elephants of the danger.
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Word of the day: ATTACHIANT(E) (French neologism) - someone you can't live with but can't live without.
It is a combination of "attachant" (endearing) and "chiant" (incredibly annoying).
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Patrick Harvie is the only member of the Scottish Parliament in history to have been cleared of the charge of blasphemy. The charge was brought by Donald Trump.
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Plants make aspirin when they’re stressed.
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The G-forces experienced by your shoelaces are greater than any roller coaster on Earth.
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Ponyhenge is a collection of rocking horses in an open field in Lincoln, Massachusetts.
No one knows where the ponies come from, or who is donating them - but the herd continues to grow.
(Image: Jenn Forman Orth; CC BY-NC-SD.)
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Dinosaurs were likely capable of dreaming.
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"I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals." WINSTON CHURCHILL
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In 2019, the founder of the Apostrophe Protection Society brought the organization to a "full stop".
He declared that their work was futile - “We, and our many supporters worldwide, have done our best but the ignorance and laziness present in modern times have won!”
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The author of "Jaws" regrets writing the book. He feels it made people too afraid of sharks; he spent much of the rest of his life as an activist for shark conservation.
(Image: Tambako The Jaguar; CC BY-NC-ND.)
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Blackcurrant was banned in the US for much of the twentieth century. One researcher estimates only 0.1% of Americans have ever eaten one.
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Legs are hereditary, and run in most families. SPIKE MILLIGAN
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According to a study by the University of Liverpool and Liverpool John Moores University, all cats have "an element of psychopathy".
(Image: MisterDesgraciao; CC BY-SA.)
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Floppy disks are still used in aviation, medicine, but most of all in embroidery machines.
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The world record for the longest time handcuffed to another human is 123 days, achieved by a couple who kept breaking up and then getting back together and wanted to save their relationship. After the handcuffing, they swore never to get back together.
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Word of the Day: VERGURKEN (German) — to screw up or ruin something, literally ‘to cucumber [something] up’.
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You can in fact be WHELMED.
The term predates OVERWHELMED, and means overcome, engulfed, or submerged.
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Swedish-built cars (Saabs, Volvos) are specifically reinforced so that the occupants will survive if you hit a moose.
(h/t @mary_roach)
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There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing. MAYA ANGELOU
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A Quite Interesting Twitter feed from the team behind the BBC TV show QI.
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