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"If you trust in yourself and believe in your dreams and follow your star, you’ll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren’t so lazy." TERRY PRATCHETT
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V is the only letter that is never silent in English.
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The average dog knows 89 words.
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Cats cannot make long-term plans.
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Rocket scientists are not, on average, smarter than the general population.
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Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance. KURT VONNEGUT
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The word ‘naughty’ is related to the word ‘nought’ and originally meant ‘poor, needy’, then ‘wicked’, then ‘immoral, promiscuous’, and only then ‘disobedient, badly behaved’.
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The most common lake name in Finland is Mustalampi, ‘Black Lake’. The second most common lake name is Paskalampi, ‘Shit Lake’.
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A sense of disconnect between what you have objectively achieved and your feelings about it, an inability to see your own success, is called PRODUCTIVITY DYSMORPHIA.
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In 1974, Oliver Postgate made a special episode of the Clangers called ‘Vote for Froglet’ as a satirical response to the political process which he thought ‘completely buggered by inter-party squabbling.’
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"Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual." TERRY PRATCHETT
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According to a study by the University of Liverpool and Liverpool John Moores University, all cats have "an element of psychopathy".
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Forty camels were disqualified from a beauty pageant in Saudi Arabia this week.
Officials realized the camels had received Botox and fillers to appear more beautiful.
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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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Word of the day: FORPLAINT - to be tired from complaining so much
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Word of the Day: PHILODOX - someone who is in love with their own opinions
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According to the 2021 Global Drug Survey, Irish people are the most likely to get drunk and then regret it.
(Chart by @_LutherAF_.)
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If you want to use a photo of the Eiffel Tower for commercial purposes, you need permission if it was taken at night but not if it was taken in the day. The copyright on the tower and its image has expired, but the copyright on the tower illumination installed in 1989 has not.
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Alice Lee was a statistician who debunked the claim that men must be more intelligent than women because of bigger skulls. In 1898, she measured the skulls of 35 members of the Anatomical Society and found that the smallest heads belonged to the most renowned scientists.
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According to documents provided by his son, Nostradamus came up with his prophecies during trance sessions induced by nutmeg which can cause hallucinations if consumed in large quantities.
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The word ‘bridal’ comes from ‘bride ale’, a traditional wedding feast typically involving ale drinking.
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Word of the Day: VERGURKEN (German) — to screw up or ruin something, literally ‘to cucumber [something] up’.
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Vampire bats lap blood rather than suck it – their saliva contains an enzyme called draculin to prevent the blood clotting.
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