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You likely overestimate how interesting you are to talk to, but underestimate how good you are at dancing.
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Consuming memes helps people deal with pandemic-related stress.
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In general, your favourite songs are the songs you were listening to when you were 13.
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Word of the day: GLÉO-DREÁM (Old English) - the joy brought by listening to music
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Michelangelo hated painting the Sistine Chapel so much he wrote a poem about it.
It begins:
"I've already grown a goiter from this torture,
hunched up here like a cat in Lombardy
(or anywhere else where the stagnant water's poison)..."
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Your BOUDOIR was originally your room for sulking.
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Deadly nightshade aka ‘Belladonna’ (beautiful lady) is so named because its juice was used as an eyedrop in Renaissance Italy to make a woman’s pupils dilate seductively.
Image: Flobbadob, CC-BY-SA 4.0
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Assuming each vampire feeds once a month, it would take two and a half years years for the whole human population to become vampires.
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Naming a cow can increase the milk yield by 500 pints a year.
Image: Martin Vorel (CC0)
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In 2013, an Ohio man was confirmed as legally dead, despite him appearing in court to overturn the decision.
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Introverted Chinese millennials have been known to call themselves jingfen, or ‘spiritually Finnish’.
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Before reluctantly deciding on the word ‘viewer’, the 1935 BBC Sub-Committee on Words considered many terms for their "users of television apparatus", including auralooker, glancer, looker-in, seer, sighter, teleobservist, viewer-in, visionnaire, vizzior, and witnesser.
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In World War II New Zealand designed and built a tank after studying a picture of one on an American postcard. It was a tractor covered in corrugated iron, with a mattress where the gunner was supposed to lie. It never made it to combat.
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The early bird who gets the worm works for somebody who comes in late and owns the worm farm. JOHN D. MACDONALD
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Word of the Day: MISOKINESIA — having strong negative feelings, thoughts, or physical reactions when seeing other people fidgeting or engaging in small repetitive movements like leg shaking or finger tapping.
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If your heart starts beating faster, the heart of your dog will start beating faster too. The longer you have had the dog, the stronger this effect will be.
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Word of the day: ESQUISSE - a first, rough sketch of an idea that you will flesh out later
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It is possible to be literally allergic to the cold.
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Countries are more likely to go to war when their national football team is doing well.
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Rather than placing the currency symbol before the amount (e.g. $50.00) or after the amount (e.g. 50.00€), the Cape Verdean escudo puts the symbol as the decimal separator - as 50$00.
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Word of the day: SUSS-MIDDEN - a woman too tired or lazy to move
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Word of the day: NEMOPHILIOUS - fond of frequenting the woods
(Image: Matthew Dillon; CC BY.)
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In New Zealand, the Christchurch city council has declined to renew the contract of their official city wizard.
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Welsh dolphins have Welsh accents.
(Image: Mandy; CC BY.)
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