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Japanese parents have recently started commissioning bags of rice that weigh the same as their newborn children so that their relatives, who are unable to visit them due to the pandemic, could have the experience of hugging the baby.
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The small village of Villar de Corneja, Spain celebrates the New Year at noon instead of midnight, as many of the residents are elderly and want to go to bed early.
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In 2018, a woman in Crimea stole 70,000 rubles from a fortune-teller who had predicted that she would come into some money soon.
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In 1908, the Russian shooting team arrived the Olympics twelve days late.
The Russian team had made sure to arrive a few days before the event was scheduled, but Russia still used the Julian calendar. The UK had switched to the Gregorian calendar 150 years earlier.
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Since hibernation is not sleep, animals emerge from hibernation sleep-deprived and tired.
Therefore, animals that hibernate come out of hibernation periodically in order to get some sleep.
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According to a 1985 paper, everything takes 2.71 times as long as you think it will.
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A 2015 study found that cheese can trigger a response in the same brain receptors activated by heroin. (Image: Christian Bauer, CC-BY-2.0)
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Word of the day: ATTPÅKLATT (Norwegian) - a child born many years after their siblings, literally translates as 'afterblob'.
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Eight out of ten of all the languages humans have ever spoken are now extinct.
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"We are not nouns, we are verbs. I am not a thing – an actor, a writer – I am a person who does things – I write, I act – and I never know what I am going to do next. I think you can be imprisoned if you think of yourself as a noun." STEPHEN FRY
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Meerkats are the most murderous animals on earth.
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"Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works...
Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things." DOUGLAS ADAMS
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"It is likely I will die next to a pile of things I was meaning to read." LEMONY SNICKET
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There is a missing link in the ancestry of the European bison, linking the steppe bison to cows.
Researchers call this hypothetical species the "Higgs bison".
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Raindrops are about the same size on all planets - regardless of if they're made of water (Earth), methane (Titan), or liquid iron (WASP-76b).
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Bats give birth upside down and catch their babies in their wings.
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In 1996, a store manager in California robbed the store, reported the robbery, and then gave a detailed description of the ‘suspect’ to the sketch artist. When the police pointed out to him that the ‘suspect’ looked exactly like him, the man confessed.
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In the event of an apocalypse, about 200 humans would need to survive for the species to be able to repopulate.
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When the Moon is directly overhead, its gravity pulls on clouds and makes it rain less.
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The Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard had 50 sets of cups and saucers for coffee. Each day his secretary had to decide on a set, and convincingly justify their choice.
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The gene that makes small dogs small also appears to make them more feisty.
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In general, your favourite songs are the songs you were listening to when you were 13.
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"It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people." NEIL GAIMAN and TERRY PRATCHETT
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Word of the Day: CUÑADISMO (Spanish slang) — literally: ‘brother-in-law-ism’; speaking on topics you know little about as if you were an expert and smarter than everyone else.
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The custom of relaying the Olympic torch has no ancient precedent: it was invented as a stunt for the Berlin Games in 1936.
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