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The sponge crab makes itself a hat from poisonous sponges.
The crab spends up to five hours shaping their new hat juuuuust right.
(Image: Seascapeza; CC BY-SA.)
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When fruit flies are lonely, they have trouble sleeping and eat too much.
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Word of the day: QUAALTAGH, n. the first person you meet when you leave the house (from the Manx language).
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After John Coltrane died in 1967, a small sect was founded in San Francisco called the Yardbird Temple which worshipped him as a god, and Charlie Parker as the equivalent to John the Baptist.
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Cuttlefish are better at remembering what they ate for lunch last Wednesday than most humans.
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Florence Nightingale owned over sixty cats in her lifetime including Big Pussie and Mrs Tit.
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Time passes faster in the mountains than it does at the coast.
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It takes more than 4 times as much water to produce a kilo of chocolate than it does a kilo of chicken.
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Only 1% of English-language tweets that use the 🍑 emoji actually refer to the physical fruit itself.
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Word of the Day: TORTITUDE — a difficult character that tortoiseshell cats are rumoured to have. (📷: James Petts.)
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According to one account, Homer died from ‘grief and vexation’ when he couldn’t solve a riddle posed to him by fishermen. It went ‘what we caught, we left behind; what we missed, we bring along’.
Comment your guesses below (and don't get as stressed as Homer if you can't get it)
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We are deeply saddened to hear of Sean Lock's passing. Sean was a QI regular right from the first series, and helped to shape the show with his fantastically sharp wit and anarchic good humour. Our thoughts are with his friends and family.
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See how wealthy America’s richest people really are: mkorostoff.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/
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Word of the day: BONAILIE (19th century Scots) - a parting drink taken with a friend to wish them a good journey
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Over 40 years of research has found that people with higher IQs are also much more likely to take drugs.
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In English, a turkey is a "turkey", while in Portuguese it is a "peru" and in Turkish, it is a "hindi" ("India").
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We recommend against making plans for September 24, 2182.
There is a one-in-1,175 chance that this asteroid will collide with Earth on that day.
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In 1847, a woman was sent to Aberdeen Lunatic Asylum for "abuse of tea".
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"If an optimist had his left arm chewed off by an alligator, he might say... "Well this isn't too bad... at least nobody will ever ask me if I'm left-handed or right-handed," but most of us would say something more along the lines of, "Aaaaaa! My arm!" LEMONY SNICKET
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The small village of Villar de Corneja, Spain celebrates the New Year at noon instead of midnight, as many of the residents are elderly and want to go to bed early.
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In 2009, Ontario, Canada passed a law stating that reflexively saying "sorry" would not count as an admission of guilt in a court of law.
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"Mind you, the Elizabethans had so many words for the female genitals that it is quite hard to speak a sentence of modern English without inadvertently mentioning at least three of them." TERRY PRATCHETT
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Word of the day: LOGODIARRHOEA - an uncontrolled flow of words
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Most animals prefer to work for their food rather than freeload.
Cats are the only known exception.
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Vincent Van Gogh once worked as a supply teacher in Ramsgate.
(Image: Anthonydpadgett)
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