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Some mathematicians call 667 ‘the fax number of the beast’.
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About one person in twenty can't visualise images in their head.
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If humans last as long as the average mammalian species, and no mass extinctions or catastrophes occur, then 99.5% of humans who will ever exist are yet to be born.
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Forty camels were disqualified from a beauty pageant in Saudi Arabia this week.
Officials realized the camels had received Botox and fillers to appear more beautiful.
(Image: Tambako The Jaguar; CC BY-NC.)
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Men are more likely to want a sports car when they feel bad about the size of their penis.
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In the 1600s, to be depressed was to be in your MUBBLE-FUBBLES.
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A 100-year-old tree absorbs 4.2 tonnes of CO2. Over the course of its life, a great whale on average captures 33 tonnes of CO2.
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The Mars rover Perseverance has measured the speed of sound on Mars and it’s about 100 m/s slower than the speed of sound on Earth.
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The Cookie Monster’s real name is Sid.
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Taking several pictures of something causes you to remember it worse than if you just looked at it.
This is called the “photo-taking-impairment effect”.
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Isaac Roberts took this photo of the Andromeda galaxy in 1888, almost 100 years before the invention of ciabatta bread.
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Ever wondered why the F and J on your keyboard have little bumps on them? #QI
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Word of the day: TUROPHILE: a lover of cheese or ‘cheese fancier’.
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Deer in headlights don't freeze purely out of fear - their eyes are so light-sensitive they are easily temporarily blinded.
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Rod Stewart, Freddie Mercury and Elton John considered forming a supergroup called "NOSE, TEETH & HAIR".
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There is no evidence stretching before you exercise reduces the risk of injury.
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The centre of the galaxy tastes of raspberries.
(Image: ESO/Y. Beletsky; CC BY.)
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In 1903, The San Francisco Examiner reported the story of a woman who, before visiting a neighbour, put her baby’s crib in front of the telephone, took off the receiver, and told the operator to call her up at the neighbour’s should the baby began to cry.
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In 1999 a racehorse called Geespot was born. Her parents were named Pursuit of Love and My Discovery.
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In the UK, February is usually a drier month than August.
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There is a cloud in Australia named Hector.
"Hector the Convector" forms every afternoon in the summer over the Tiwi Islands in the Northern Territory of Australia.
(Image: Djambalawa; CC BY-SA.)
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The UK’s first national lottery in 1567 promised ‘get out of jail free cards’. To boost sales, ticket holders could avoid arrest for misdemeanour crimes.
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The Mafra Palace Library in Portugal has an army of bats that come out each night and dine on the insects that want to eat their 14-19th century leather bound books.
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There’s an art installation on the Moon. It’s called Fallen Astronaut by Paul Van Hoeydonck. The plaque names the men of the US and Soviet space programs that have lost their lives on space missions. (Image: NASA)
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Word of the Day: MONOMATH (neologism) — ‘a person with an exhaustive knowledge of a single, often utterly trivial, subject’.
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