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In 2019, a Russian police officer was constantly asked by the regional prosecutor’s office to question a witness who had died a year before. The officer finally went to a medium and wrote a report saying he tried to contact the soul of the witness during a séance but to no avail.
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There have never been any “Good Old Days,” there have just been days. KURT VONNEGUT
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In 1920, Dorothy Parker met her editor for brunch. He fired her. She ordered the most expensive dessert on the menu and left.
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Learned behaviours passed on though culture may now be influencing human evolution faster than genetic mutations and natural selection.
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Recent analysis of medieval skeletons indicated that the fashion for ever more pointy shoes caused serious damage to wealthy people’s feet.
(Image: Metropolitan Museum of Art)
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For every mile of British railway laid in the 19th century, a thousand pounds was spent on booze by the construction teams (equivalent to £25,000 today).
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The female blue tit weaves aromatic plants like lavender and mint into its nest to ward off bacteria, fungi and insects.
(Image: Francis C. Franklin)
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Each ear of corn always has an even number of rows.
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Paper planes are older than planes, so they were originally known as paper darts. (Image from 1882).
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Phrase of the Day: FART IN A COLANDER (naval slang) — describing indecisive behaviour: ‘rushing about like a fart in a colander, not sure which hole to come out of’.
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According to the UK Deed Poll Service, every week at least one person requests ‘Danger’ as a middle name.
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I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free - MICHELANGELO
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Word of the Day: QUOMODOCUNQUINZING (17th century) - making money any way you can.
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The Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard had 50 sets of cups and saucers for coffee. Each day his secretary had to decide on a set, and convincingly justify their choice.
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At room temperature, the inside of a cucumber can be up to 20 degrees cooler than the outside air.
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James Joyce believed he would recognise his wife Nora’s fart anywhere and would ‘pick hers out in a roomful of farting women’.
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Word of the Day: OMNIBIBULOUS — someone who drinks everything.
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It is against US federal law to correspond with a pirate.
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About 1.69 million Britons have three or more nipples.
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If an election in New Mexico is tied, the two candidates play a single hand of poker as a tiebreaker.
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Word of the day: CONJOBBLING (19th century) - to get together to eat and gossip
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Movies contain a disclaimer that "any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events, is purely coincidental" because in 1933, Rasputin's murderer sued MGM for libel in inaccurately depicting the events that lead to Rasputin's death.
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In the 1990s, Mark Strong auditioned for the role of a Bond villain. He failed the audition because he had a severe hangover after a night out with his friend Daniel Craig.
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If you have a song stuck in your head before you go to sleep, you are much more likely to sleep poorly.
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Meerkats are the most murderous animals on earth.
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