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In the French Republican calendar, every day was named after something important to rural French life.
28 December was the day of manure.
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Word of the day: ABLIGURITION - excessive spending on food and drink
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"If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring in a folding chair." SHIRLEY CHISHOLM, first Black woman elected to the US Congress
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Word of the day: MERRYNEUM (neologism) - the odd week between Christmas and the New Year
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The Cookie Monster’s real name is Sid.
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94% of Parisians live within a five minute walk of a bakery.
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"We are trying to unravel the Mighty Infinite using a language which was designed to tell one another where the fresh fruit was." TERRY PRATCHETT
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Word of the day: SPUDDLE - to work hard but achieve nothing
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Men with larger noses also have larger penises.
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HYPNIC JERK - the sensation that jolts you awake as you’re about to nod off.
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In the 1980s you had 17 minutes to escape a house fire in the average American home, but because of the flammability of modern furniture, it’s now closer to 3 minutes.
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The Three Gorges dam in China shifted so much water when it was built that it slowed the world’s rotation (but only by 0.06 microseconds) and moved the poles by 2cm.
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In the 1950s, the French government’s pro-sobriety campaign featured posters saying ‘No More Than a Litre of Wine a Day’.
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You can in fact be WHELMED.
The term predates OVERWHELMED, and means overcome, engulfed, or submerged.
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"The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair." DOUGLAS ADAMS
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An ENDLING is the last surviving individual of a species.
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In 1966, the Procrastinators' Club of America held a protest against the War of 1812.
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In Utrecht, for George Orwell's birthday, local artists put party hats on the city's CCTV cameras. 📷:Dutch artists 'Front404'
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In Catalonia, there is a Christmas tradition of ‘feeding’ a hollowed-out log for several days and then beating it until it ‘defecates’ presents. The log is called ‘Caga Tió’, literally ‘Shit Log’.
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Seals regulate their body temperature by keeping their heads and tails off the cold wet floor, in what is known as the ‘banana pose’. 📷: Ibex73
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In 2016, Yukon Territory, Canada rolled out a campaign to remind residents that they should make sure to get enough vitamin D.
The campaign's tagline was "we all need the D".
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For four years, the US state of Nebraska was last on a list of states that tourists are interested in visiting.
The Nebraska Tourism Commission then adopted the slogan “Nebraska: honestly, it’s not for everyone.”
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98.4% of Twitter users who announced they were moving to Mastodon are still on Twitter.
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