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Female octopuses throw things at males that harass them.
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V is the only letter that is never silent in English.
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20% of dogs love being told they're a good dog more than they love food.
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James Doohan, the actor for Star Trek's Scotty, was given an honorary doctorate by the Milwaukee School of Engineering after nearly half the student body cited him as their inspiration for pursuing engineering.
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Some clubs use free lollipops to calm patrons at the end of the night, because it’s hard to shout at someone with a lollipop in your mouth.
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A quote from US President Richard Nixon unearthed in 1997 said that had rap existed when he was young, he might have chosen to become a rapper instead of entering politics.
(Image: Nancy Wong; CC BY-SA.)
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African Matabele ants carry injured colleagues back to the nest after battle to tend to their wounds. They have a triage system; dying ants aren’t treated but those missing a leg or two are. Apart from humans, they’re the only organisms known to do this.
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In 1979, mathematicians David A. Cox and Steven Zucker wrote a joint paper about an algorithm that is now known as the ‘Cox-Zucker machine’.
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The ideal time to make a joke about something horrible is 36 days later.
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There’s no such thing as a chemical that makes your pee visible in swimming pools.
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The press release for the 1980 edition of ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’ contained a section with the following praise from the members of Monty Python. The total number of words is 42.
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The sound of your stomach rumbling is not necessarily because you’re hungry. It’s not even your stomach - it’s your small intestine cleaning itself after digesting food.
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According to the UK Deed Poll Service, every week at least one person requests ‘Danger’ as a middle name.
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Google can bring you back, you know, a hundred thousand answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one. NEIL GAIMAN
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MI6 did, in fact, employ a spy named James Bond.
In 1964, James Albert Bond was sent to Warsaw to collect military secrets from behind the Iron Curtain.
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The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised. GEORGE F. WILL
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This year's Ig Nobel Prize in medicine was given to a group of researchers who proved that having an orgasm is as as effective at relieving nasal congestion as taking a decongestant medication.
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The oldest recorded joke (from 1900 BCE) was a fart joke.
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In Swaziland, witches on broomsticks are not legally permitted to fly above 150 meters.
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In his 1828 dictionary, Noah Webster wrote that ‘the domestic cat needs no description. It is a deceitful animal, and when enraged, extremely spiteful’.
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The winner of the first modern Olympic Marathon stopped at a tavern mid-race for a glass of wine.
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Lobsters communicate by peeing on each other out of their heads.
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"Mind you, the Elizabethans had so many words for the female genitals that it is quite hard to speak a sentence of modern English without inadvertently mentioning at least three of them." TERRY PRATCHETT
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Atheists and agnostics sleep more soundly at night than Catholics or Baptists.
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BEDTIME PROCRASTINATION is the psychological phenomenon when a person stays up too late in order to have feel like they have some time to themselves.
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