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She's one of the greatest athletes of all time, and you've probably never heard of her.
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Word of the day: TINTIDDLE - a witty retort, thought of too late; the English equivalent for l'esprit de l'escalier
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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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Australia took home its first winter Olympic gold medal in 2002 when the Aussie athlete was the only one who didn't fall over.
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"The quality of any advice anybody has to offer has to be judged against the quality of life they actually lead." DOUGLAS ADAMS
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The ‘cheese’ in the phrase ‘big cheese’ may have nothing to do with food: it probably comes from the Persian word ‘cīz’ that means ‘thing’.
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Word of the Day: TECHNOSTALGIA — nostalgia for old technology.
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Space X’s satellite dishes are heated to prevent snow build up. American cats have discovered this and are curling up on the dishes to warm themselves on cold days, interrupting streaming services.
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During WWII, Max von Laue and James Franck’s Nobel prize medals were dissolved in acid and sat on a shelf in a Danish lab to hide them from the Nazis. Later the gold was recovered and the medals were recast.
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The advantage of a bad memory is that one can enjoy the same good things for the first time, several times. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
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There are no fewer than seven mountains called "Mollie's Nipple" in Utah.
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In 2018, Munafri Arifuddin ran unopposed for mayor of Makassar, Indonesia.
He lost the election to "none of the above".
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In 2009, Irish police wrote more than 50 tickets to "Prawo Jazdy".
Prawo Jazdy is Polish for "driving licence".
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PHOBOPHOBIA is the fear of developing a phobia.
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"Beauty doesn't have to be about anything. What's a vase about? What's a sunset or a flower about? What, for that matter, is Mozart's Twenty-third Piano Concerto about?" DOUGLAS ADAMS
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In order to avoid paying for meals, Salvador Dalí would doodle on the back of his cheques, knowing they would then never be cashed.
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Word of the Day: TAKIWATANGA (Maori) — autism, literally ‘his or her own time and space’.
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I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.
WILHELM VON HUMBOLDT
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This colour - Pantone 448 C - is considered to be the ugliest in the world.
When the Australian Department of Health referred to it as "olive green", the Australian Olive Association complained that this denigrated olives.
(Image: علاء; CC BY-SA.)
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Word of the day: POLITICASTER - a much-disliked politician
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Farewell to Barry Cryer, a comedy legend and a much loved member of the QI family. Our thoughts are with Barry's friends and family.
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No one knows if spiders fart.
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In order to test in-flight wifi, Boeing fills their planes with potatoes.
Potatoes interfere with signals the same way as the human body.
The project was called Synthetic Personnel Using Dialectic Substitution (SPUDS).
(Edited image: Superjet International)
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Word of the day: LIBROCUBICULARIST - someone who reads in bed
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"Perhaps if we saw what was ahead of us, and glimpsed the follies, and misfortunes that would befall us later on, we would all stay in our mother's wombs, and then there would be nobody in the world but a great number of very fat, very irritated women." LEMONY SNICKET
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