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Gray whales have threesomes.
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You can get raw herring and onion ice cream in the Netherlands (Image: Redherring NL)
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Word of the day: MUCK-SPOUT (19th century) - someone who swears too much
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A 1940s Australian expression for surprise was "stiffen the wombats!"
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Think photosynthesis is just for plants? Think again.
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In Georgian-era slang, ‘a gentleman of three outs’ was a man without manners, money, and wit. ‘A gentleman of three ins’ was a man in debt, in gaol, and in danger of remaining there for life.
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Transdeletion, or transposed deletion is a process whereby you shorten a word by a letter and form an anagram out of the remaining ones: ‘sure’ → ‘use’. A transdeletion pyramid is a chain of words where each one is a transdeleted version of the previous one.
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Word of the day: CONJOBBLING (19th century) - to get together to eat and gossip
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It is possible to see colours that can't exist, such as blue darker than black or red brighter than white.
Chimerical colours can be produced by staring at one colour until your cone cells are fatigued, and then briefly looking at another, as below.
(Image: Zowie; CC BY.)
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Word of the day: SUSS-MIDDEN - a woman too tired or lazy to move
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Before the recording of this week's new episode of QI, @BillBailey received a very special award.
Can we please have a big round of applause for Bill! 👏
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If you feel less sharp in midlife than you did in your 20s, you can't blame your age.
According to new research, your mental processing speed doesn't begin slow down until your 60s.
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Word of the day: DECIDOPHOBIA - the fear of making the wrong decision
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McDonald’s introduced its first drive-thru in 1975 for soldiers on an Arizona military base, because they weren’t allowed to be seen in their uniforms in public, so had to stay in their cars.
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Thomas Aquinas identified five types of gluttony:
Laute - eating food that is too luxurious
Studiose - eating food too daintily
Nimis - eating too much food
Praepropere - eating at an inappropriate time
Ardenter - eating too eagerly
Tag yourself.
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An APATHEIST doesn't care if God exists or not.
The word is a portmanteau of "apathy" and "theism".
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In 1952, the Kray twins became the last people to be held in the Tower of London (for failing to report for national service).
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I love telling people spoilers about The Picture of Dorian Gray. Never gets old. ALEX JOHNSON
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This 1881 map shows how long it would take (in days) to get by train from London to other parts of the world.
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According to documents provided by his son, Nostradamus came up with his prophecies during trance sessions induced by nutmeg which can cause hallucinations if consumed in large quantities.
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House cats definitely learn the names of other cats they live with and possibly the names of humans they live with. (Study: go.nature.com/39xzHid.)
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Every 25 December in Chumbivilcas Province, Peru, residents go to the centre of town to have a communal fistfight. Residents claim it is cathartic.
Afterwards, fighters are encouraged to drink away the pain of their injuries.
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"There are of course many problems connected with life, of which some of the most popular are 'Why are people born? Why do they die? Why do they want to spend so much of the intervening time wearing digital watches?'" DOUGLAS ADAMS
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Word of the day: DETERIORISM - the belief that the worst is yet to come
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In a similar way to tree rings being made, periods of stress in our lives can show up in our teeth.
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A Quite Interesting Twitter feed from the team behind the BBC TV show QI.
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