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Learned behaviours passed on though culture may now be influencing human evolution faster than genetic mutations and natural selection.
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Plastic bottles can now be recycled to produce vanilla flavouring for food using a genetically engineered strain of E. coli bacteria.
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PHOBOPHOBIA is the fear of developing a phobia.
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WRAP RAGE is the anger you feel when attempting to open tamper-resistant packaging.
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According to one etymological theory, the word ‘decrepit’ comes from the prefix ‘de’ + the verb ‘crepare’, which can mean ‘to break wind’, and thus the word ‘decrepit’ describes someone who can’t fart because of old age.
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Word of the day: ANTISOCORDIST - an opponent of people behaving stupidly
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We are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody ever tell you any different. KURT VONNEGUT
908
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Word of the Day: SERIEOTROHET (Swedish) — ‘series infidelity’: when you have been watching a TV show with your partner and then you watch a new episode without them.
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Word of the day: 손맛 (son-mat; Korean) - "hand taste", the unique taste each person making a recipe adds to it, usually used to describe how no one can make food like your mum
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According to The Malcolm Tucker Awards for Excellence in Swearing, the best ‘sweary moment’ of 2021 in sports was on April 24th, when the teams in the MLB’s American League West division were ranked so that their logos spelled out ‘ASSHAT’.
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"Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten." NEIL GAIMAN
912
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Following a recent salmonella outbreak, the US Centres for Disease Control has warned people not to ‘kiss or snuggle’ their chickens.
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There are two rhymes for orange in British English: Blorenge (a mountain in Wales) and sporange (a sac where spores are made).
However, the American pronunciation of orange has no rhyme.
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In Ancient Egypt lettuce had a phallic shape and oozed milky fluids when cut, making it a potent sex symbol.
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According to Merriam-Webster, the word ‘colleague’ is most commonly used with such words as ‘fellow’, ‘esteemed’, and ‘distinguished’. The word ‘coworker’ is often used with such words as ‘difficult’, ‘bossy’, and ‘annoying’.
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Word of the day: HOMOPHOBIAPHOBIA - fear or dislike of homophobes
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When national football teams do well in international competitions, birth rates drop nine months later.
The authors, Dr. Luca Fumarco and Dr. Francesco Principe, speculate "these results might be explained by individuals’ time allocation choices."
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In the 1980s you had 17 minutes to escape a house fire in the average American home, but because of the flammability of modern furniture, it’s now closer to 3 minutes.
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Ian Fleming went to a prep school in Dorset near an area called Spyway and next to the estate of the Bond family whose motto is ‘Non Sufficit Orbis’, which means ‘The World Is Not Enough’.
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Scientists at the University of Copenhagen believe that they could resurrect an extinct species of rat.
They aren't planning to do so because "probably the world doesn’t need any more rats".
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Word of the Day: ATTACHMEANT (neologism) — the file you forgot to attach to an email.
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Newfoundland, Canada is home to the small town of Dildo.
In 2019, a porn website offered to run free advertising to support tourism to the town.
(Image: Jcmurphy; CC BY-SA.)
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As king of Prussia, Frederick the Great encouraged his subject to eat more potatoes.
People now leave potatoes on his grave as a tribute.
(Image: Karen Mardahl; CC BY-SA.)
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The first marshmallows were made by boiling pulp from mallow plants with honey and sugar. Ancient Egyptians used it to treat sore throats. (Image: John Morgan CC-by-2.0)
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Saccadic masking is the process by which the brain edits out the motion of our eyes. Look in a mirror, first at one eye and then the other. You won’t be able to see your eyes move but an observer standing next to you will.
Image: Petr Novák
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