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The average Briton will lose 756 socks in their lifetime.
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"The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair." DOUGLAS ADAMS
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Because of wildfires – many of them started deliberately to clear land for agriculture - the Amazon rainforest now releases more carbon into the atmosphere than it is removes.
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Word of the day: SOLIVAGANT - a person who enjoys wandering by themselves.
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Cicadas pee so much people can mistake it for rain. In parts of the US, it’s advisable to wear a hat when walking near trees in summer. (Image: Bruce Marlin CC BY-SA 2.5)
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Replacing all the UK’s cars and vans with electric batteries would require twice the current worldwide annual production of cobalt.
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Word of the Day: POOP-NODDY (archaic) — sex.
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In 1997, a container ship ran aground off the Isles of Scilly, and a container carrying a million plastic bags drifted ashore. Its doors burst open, and the foreshore became awash with the bags bearing the words ‘Help protect the environment’.
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Never put off till tomorrow what you can do day after tomorrow just as well. MARK TWAIN
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‘Presbyterians’ is an anagram of ‘Britney Spears’.
Image: Glenn Francis, CC BY-SA 4.0
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How to dress for the gym in 1895…
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"That seems to point up a significant difference between Europeans and Americans. A European says: 'I can't understand this, what's wrong with me?' An American says: 'I can't understand this, what's wrong with him?'" TERRY PRATCHETT
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What one calls the interruptions are precisely one’s real life. C.S. LEWIS
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Word of the Day: FORJESKIT (Scots) - exhausted from working too much
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Word of the day: AFTERCLAP - an unpleasant turn of events after you thought you'd finished dealing with something
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A 2016 study debunking the ‘5 second rule’ found it’s safer to eat foods dropped on the carpet than on tile, metallic, or wooden surfaces.
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German chocolate cake is not from Germany.
It was originally made from a kind of chocolate developed by a man named German.
(Image: Tracy Hunter.)
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"Perhaps if we saw what was ahead of us, and glimpsed the follies, and misfortunes that would befall us later on, we would all stay in our mother's wombs, and then there would be nobody in the world but a great number of very fat, very irritated women." LEMONY SNICKET
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In Nahuatl, the language spoken by the Aztecs and still spoken in Mexico, gold is ‘coztic teocuitlatl’ (‘yellow divine excrement’) and silver is ‘iztac teocuitlatl’ (‘white divine excrement’).
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In 2006, an experiment with different cycling gear found drivers gave an average of 14.1cm more space when overtaking a cyclist wearing a long blonde wig.
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In 1895 Marvin R. Clark wrote a translation of cat-speak called ‘Pussy and Her Language’.
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One third of US divorce filings in 2011 contained the word "Facebook".
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Thank God for books as an alternative to conversation. W.H. AUDEN
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In 1949, a contest for a new term to replace ‘jazz’ featured such suggestions as ‘bix-e-bop’, ‘swixibop’, ‘ragtibop’, ‘schmoosic’, 'jarb' and ‘le hot’.
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The Chinese giant salamander can reach almost six feet in length and seven stone (50kg) in weight, is prone to cannibalism and makes a noise like a crying baby.
(Image: Petr Hamerník)
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