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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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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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An APATHEIST doesn't care if God exists or not.
The word is a portmanteau of "apathy" and "theism".
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Approximately 99% of rooms contain a spider.
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Word of the day: FLÂNEUR - a person who strolls through the city, people-watching
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"There is no cause for concern. We're way past that now. If you're not at least feeling mild terror then you haven't been paying attention." JOSEPH FINK and JEFFREY CRANOR
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One third of US divorce filings in 2011 contained the word "Facebook".
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The average traffic speed in modern-day Central London is about the same speed as it was when the streets were filled with horse-drawn carriages.
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After the French Revolution, saints' days were replaced with days honoring important items in rural French life.
June 21 was the day to honor the onion.
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In 2013, the Ig Nobel Probability Prize went to a group of researchers who discovered that the longer a cow has been lying down, the more likely that cow will soon stand up; and that once a cow stands up, you can’t predict how soon that cow will lie down again. (@improbresearch)
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Because your vocal folds need a humid environment to be elastic enough to produce certain sounds correctly, tonal languages — like Mandarin Chinese — are much more common in humid regions of Earth.
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According to a 1655 book, a Silesian village was once terrorised by an incredibly smelly vampire, who vomited fire, threw dung at people, came into houses at night and made sounds like a hog. The villagers believed it was the spirit of a deceased man called Johannes Cuntius.
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In 1879, ‘Punch’ predicted video calls: In this cartoon, parents ‘set up an electric camera obscura over their bedroom mantel-piece, and gladden their eyes with the sight of their Children at the Antipodes, and converse gaily with them through the wire’.
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Word of the Day: INFRACANINOPHILE — someone who loves underdogs.
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Roughly once a year, in the Montenegrin village of Dinoša, water gushes naturally from the trunk of a mulberry tree. (Image: Argus News CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Kanbari nyūdō is a Japanese spirit that lurks around toilets on New Year’s Eve and tries to lick you.
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Word of the day: THINKO - a careless error in thinking, a mental typo
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Living amongst dying houseplants makes you more stressed than having none at all.
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In gay slang, a "friend of Dorothy" is a gay man.
During the 1980s, the US military conducted a massive investigation to find out who Dorothy was.
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Cat owners are sometimes called "Dosenöffner" - can openers - in German.
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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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In a 1666 paper for the Royal Society of London, physicist Robert Boyle listed things to be researched about coal mines including whether coal miners ever meet subterranean demons.
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Word of the Day: CAGADUBTES (Catalan slang) — literally: ‘someone who shits doubts’; a person who has a hard time making decisions.
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In a similar way to tree rings being made, periods of stress in our lives can show up in our teeth.
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Isaac Roberts took this photo of the Andromeda galaxy in 1888, almost 100 years before the invention of ciabatta bread.
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