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Word of the Day: NOODLEDOM — a collective term for a group of fools.
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PLEONASM is the term for redundant expressions - like "ATM machine", "hot water heater", or "free gift".
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The man who wrote the preamble to the US constitution died due to an infection after he inserted a whalebone into his urethra.
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In 2019 a Japanese student of the history of ninjas received top marks for writing her essay in invisible ink.
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Mount Thor in Canada has the world's longest vertical drop.
If you fell off it, you would fall for over a kilometer before you hit anything.
(Image: Peter Morgan; CC BY-NC-ND.)
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A RECURSIVE LAKE is a lake located on an island within a lake.
For instance, Lake Yathkyed in Canada has islands in lakes on islands in lakes on islands in lakes.
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"It's my belief we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain." LILY TOMLIN
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Word of the day: GUBBSJUKA (Swedish) - literally "old man sickness", when old men lust after (much) younger women
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"When I was a child, adults would tell me not to make things up, warning me of what would happen if I did. As far as I can tell so far, it seems to involve lots of foreign travel and not having to get up too early in the morning." NEIL GAIMAN
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Thank God for books as an alternative to conversation. W.H. AUDEN
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The U.S. Department of State’s anti-corruption coordinator is a man called Rich Nephew.
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The James Bond theme music was written by composer Monty Norman. He based it on his earlier piece, a composition (with words) for a stage production of V.S. Naipaul’s novel ‘A House For Mr. Biswas’, where the tune is played on a sitar.
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Batman once had an enemy called Hatman who was obsessed with stealing headwear.
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Word of the Day: SLOTCH (South Lancashire, 19th Century) — a gluttonous, drunken clown.
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Since he tried to record everything that was ever known into his books, St Isidore of Seville (560 - 636CE) is the unofficial patron saint of the Internet.
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Wembley Stadium has more toilets than any other sporting venue in the world, enough for a new toilet every day for 7 and a half years (if you wanted to try them all).
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The tiny town of Rabbit Hash, Kentucky has only ever elected dogs as mayor.
The current mayor is a French bulldog. He took over from a pit bull named Brynneth Pawltro.
(Image: Artur Malinowski; CC BY.)
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"The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat." LILY TOMLIN
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A fart travels about eight inches per minute.
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Word of the day: NANNICK (early 20th century English dialect) - to fool around when you really should be working
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Penguins alter their accents to sound like their friends.
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"Rubber duck debugging" is the practice of debugging software by explaining what you meant the program to do to the duck.
Often, explaining the process will cause the programmer to figure out what they did wrong.
(Image: Tom Morris; CC BY-SA.)
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At one point, Prince William and Prince Harry changed the Queen's voicemail to:
"Hey wassup! This is Liz. Sorry I'm away from the throne. For a hotline to Philip, press one. For Charles, press two. And for the corgis, press three."
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Facts are meaningless. You can use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true. HOMER SIMPSON
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A study of compound swears used in Reddit comments from 2006 to 2020 has found that the most popular combination is ‘dumbass’ (3.6 million comments). The 444 combinations used only once include ‘sleazenozzle’ and ‘bastardbucket’. (📷 and the study: Colin Morris, @HalfEatenScone.)
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A Quite Interesting Twitter feed from the team behind the BBC TV show QI.
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