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A fart travels about eight inches per minute.
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Pigeons can be taught to recognise all 26 letters of the English alphabet and to distinguish between real words and gibberish.
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Roughly once a year, in the Montenegrin village of Dinoša, water gushes naturally from the trunk of a mulberry tree. (Image: Argus News CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Scientists have developed 13-millimetre artificial fish which can tow 5kg of material, heal themselves, and collect microplastics from the sea as they swim.
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One Arabic equivalent to ‘making a mountain out of a molehill’ is ‘making a wine shop out of a raisin’.
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A French power station that makes enough electricity for about 1,500 homes is powered by the bi-products of the Beaufort cheese industry.
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People born with a surname towards the end of the alphabet tend to be more impatient.
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"The quality of any advice anybody has to offer has to be judged against the quality of life they actually lead." DOUGLAS ADAMS
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Defecation can stimulate the vagus nerve and produce a pleasurable sensation that is called ‘poo-phoria’.
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Julia Child was 6' 2" (188 cm) and so dominant at college basketball that the administration at her college banned her from dunking.
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A signpost in Maine, USA, showing the names of local towns (Image: Magicpiano)
CC BY-SA 1.0
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Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore? - HENRY WARD BEECHER
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The invention of glass spectacles in the late 13th century lengthened the professional life of scholars and craftspeople by fifteen years or more, by enabling them to read or practise detailed work for longer.
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Brazil could not afford to send a team to the 1932 Olympics, so they sent the athletes on a ship full of coffee.
The athletes sold the coffee along the way to fund their journey.
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The word ‘Nationalsozialist’ was shortened by Hitler’s opponents to ‘Nazi’, partly because ‘Natzi’ or ‘Nazi’ was a short form of the name ‘Ignatz’ (Ignatius) and had already been used in regional slang to describe a foolish or clumsy person.
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The earliest recorded use of the term ‘Wild West’, to mean the American frontier, was by Charlotte Brontë.
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While filming the 1996 horror movie Scream, a phone used by Drew Barrymore’s character to make panicked 911 calls was accidentally left connected. Concerned police phoned back to check the murders weren’t real.
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In 1974, The U.S. National Book Awards ceremony was interrupted by a naked streaker running through the hall and shouting ‘Read books! Read books!’
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There have never been any “Good Old Days,” there have just been days. KURT VONNEGUT
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On the 14th of February 1784, there was a wedding in Derby where the couple had between them seven thumbs: the bride had three thumbs, and the groom four.
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In 2004, Swedish authorities deployed emergency services to provide a "condom ambulance".
If you needed a condom urgently, you could call them for an emergency condom delivery.
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"A passport, as I'm sure you know, is a document that one shows to government officials whenever one reaches a border between countries, so the officials can learn who you are, where you were born, and how you look when photographed unflatteringly." LEMONY SNICKET
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Penguins alter their accents to sound like their friends.
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A tautological compound is a word with two parts that have the same meaning, e.g. ‘sledgehammer’ (hammer-hammer), ‘pathway’ (way-way), and, if one etymological theory is correct, ‘slowworm‘ (snake-snake).
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CUNNINGHAM'S LAW: The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question, it's to post the wrong answer. STEVEN MCGEADY
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A Quite Interesting Twitter feed from the team behind the BBC TV show QI.
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