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Florence Nightingale owned over sixty cats in her lifetime including Big Pussie and Mrs Tit.
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When fruit flies are lonely, they have trouble sleeping and eat too much.
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People spend 46.9% of the day daydreaming.
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MIT students are certified as pirates if they complete archery, sailing, fencing, and pistol shooting courses.
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The average person swears 80-90 times a day.
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"If you trust in yourself and believe in your dreams and follow your star, you’ll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren’t so lazy." TERRY PRATCHETT
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You know the very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. They don't alter their views to fit the facts. They alter the facts to fit their views. DOCTOR WHO, 1977
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Every actor has to make terrible films from time to time, but the trick is never to be terrible in them. – CHRISTOPHER LEE (1922-2015)
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Last year scientists discovered an explosion, 390 million light years away, which was the equivalent of ‘setting off 20 billion, billion megaton TNT explosions every thousandth of a second for the entire 240 million years.’
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In a 2008 study, researchers at Bath Spa University asked volunteers to rank the intelligence of people with various accents.
A Yorkshire accent was rated highest. A Brummie accent was rated lower than staying silent.
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The ‘$@?%&*’ that you see in place of a swear word is called a grawlix.
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Human skin has no wetness receptors. You can only feel that something is wet by sensing a cold temperature, combined with a certain texture and pressure your brain has learned to associate with ‘wetness’.
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London foxes appear to be domesticating themselves.
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Last month, a girl in Rhode Island left cookies out for Santa, found them half-eaten, and sent a sample of the food to the authorities for a DNA test. They said they were able to find a partial match ‘to a 1947 case centered around 34th Street in New York City’.
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The average dog knows 89 words.
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In 2007, Russia planted a Russian flag on the Arctic sea floor to claim the area as Russian territory.
The Canadian foreign minister responded that "this isn’t the 15th century. You can’t go around the world and just plant flags and say, ‘We’re claiming this territory.’ "
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In 2013, an Ohio man was confirmed as legally dead, despite him appearing in court to overturn the decision.
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Regular farting can be a sign of good intestinal health.
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In a study of 15-year olds, the tendency to claim to know something when they don’t was most common in males from rich families.
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Liechtenstein only realised they had the same flag as Haiti when they both competed at the 1936 Olympics.
Liechtenstein added a crown to their flag in 1937 to avoid further confusion.
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In 2007, a Bosnian couple cheated on each other - with each other.
They had spent time in a chat room bonding about their marital woes. When they met in person, they found out the person they had been complaining to was their spouse.
They got divorced.
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Word of the day: PENELOPISING - to deliberately delay finishing a task to avoid something else, as Penelope in the Odyssey
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The newly restored 14th century shrine of St Amphibalus at St Albans cathedral features a carving of a head wearing a facemask to commemorate the shrine’s restoration during the pandemic. (Image: St Albans Cathedral)
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In 1963, a Turkish man was remodeling his home and knocked down a wall.
He discovered an entire underground city behind it - capable of holding 20,000 residents.
(Image: Nevit Dilmen; CC BY-SA.)
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Minnesota has added new snowplows to their fleet. Joining Plowy McPlowface are No Mr. Ice Guy, Edward Blizzardhands, Ctrl Salt Delete, among others.
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