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Town planners in Porters Lake, Nova Scotia seem to have run out of ideas.
There are streets named "This Street", "That Street", and "The Other Street".
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Mice find being near bananas stressful.
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The Michelin of Michelin starred restaurants is the same Michelin that makes tyres.
They started producing the guide - and reviewing restaurants - in order to encourage people to drive more.
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The official @kfc Twitter account follows eleven people: six men named Herb and the five Spice Girls.
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Bees are now legally considered a type of fish in California.
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"To summarise the summary of the summary: people are a problem." DOUGLAS ADAMS
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Global warming may lead to larger snakes.
(Image: Charles Baker; CC BY-SA.)
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It would be a good thing to buy books if one could also buy the time to read them. ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
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In Polish slang, if you want to say that someone is overdressed, you can say that they are ‘dressed up like a rat for the opening of a sewer’.
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Early American trains had wood-burning engines that would spew embers into the passenger cars, so some railways gave each passenger a bucket of sand to pour on a neighbour if they caught fire.
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Word of the Day: MONOMATH (neologism) — ‘a person with an exhaustive knowledge of a single, often utterly trivial, subject’.
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Schwartz’s Chinese Five Spice powder contains six spices.
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The world record for the longest time handcuffed to another human is 123 days, achieved by a couple who kept breaking up and then getting back together and wanted to save their relationship. After the handcuffing, they swore never to get back together.
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83% of Britain’s department stores have closed since 2016.
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"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored." ALDOUS HUXLEY
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Reading spoilers beforehand doesn't spoil the fun - knowing the plot beforehand actually enhances your enjoyment.
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There is no evidence stretching before you exercise reduces the risk of injury.
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Scientists at the University of East Anglia spent seven years trying to discover why men exist.
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Word of the day: PRECRASTINATION - doing something too quickly or too early to get it out of the way
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Short men really are more aggressive.
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Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise. BERTRAND RUSSELL
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In English, Latin, Hindi and many other languages, the Proto-Indo-European word ‘*udros’ — ‘water creature’ — became the word for the otter. In Greek, it became the word for a sea monster (‘hydra’). [📷: Cloudtail the Snow Leopard, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0]
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Humans have the largest bottoms in the animal kingdom relative to body size.
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The word ZODIAC is not related to the stars; it comes from the Greek for "circle of little animals".
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"We are stuck with technology when all we really want is just stuff that works. How do you recognize something that is still technology? A good clue is if it comes with a manual." DOUGLAS ADAMS
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A Quite Interesting Twitter feed from the team behind the BBC TV show QI.
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