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Word of the day: MITTYESQUE - describes a person who spends more time daydreaming than paying attention to the real world
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There are 4.5 hectares of forest per person in Finland, where deforestation has been illegal since 1886.
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The Seán O'Casey bridge in Dublin was designed to swing open to allow ships to pass through.
It stayed closed for four years after the operator lost the remote control.
(Image: Peter Misik; CC BY-SA.)
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It is perfectly legal to break out of prison in Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden and Austria.
They believe it is human nature to want to escape from captivity.
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The oldest known spider was 43 years old when it passed away.
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Word of the day: AFTERCLAP - an unpleasant turn of events after you thought you'd finished dealing with something
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Word of the day: ATTPÅKLATT (Norwegian) - a child born many years after their siblings, literally translates as 'afterblob'.
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Orcas go through short-lived fads. For instance, they recently started breaking rudders off sailboats along the European coast; and for a few weeks in the 1980s, some took to swimming with dead fish on their heads.
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McDonald’s introduced its first drive-thru in 1975 for soldiers on an Arizona military base, because they weren’t allowed to be seen in their uniforms in public, so had to stay in their cars.
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Museum of Failure features such products as the Harley-Davidson cologne; the spray-on condom (‘simply insert penis into an apparatus to coat with melted latex. Then wait 3 minutes for latex to dry’); and a $200 handheld device that only supports Twitter.
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Word of the Day: BARKITECTURE — the art of designing the exterior and interior of a house based on the needs of your dog.
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A serious drought 150,000 years ago reduced the global human population to 600. They survived by moving to the coast and eating oysters.
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The world’s deserts receive enough solar energy in six hours to power the world for a year.
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Sunlight takes 8 minutes to travel from the surface of the Sun to Earth, but anywhere from 5,000 to 100,000 years to get from the Sun’s core to its surface.
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Rod Stewart, Freddie Mercury and Elton John considered forming a supergroup called "NOSE, TEETH & HAIR".
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In 1895 Marvin R. Clark wrote a translation of cat-speak called ‘Pussy and Her Language’.
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APROSEXIA is the inability to concentrate.
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"An escalator can never break: it can only become stairs. You should never see an Escalator Temporarily Out Of Order sign, just Escalator Temporarily Stairs. Sorry for the convenience." MITCH HEDBERG
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The Icelandic word for "echo" - BERGMÁL - literally translates as "rock language".
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"The truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head." TERRY PRATCHETT
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The cloudiest city in the US gets more sunlight than the sunniest city in England.
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"Are we living a life that is safe from harm?
Of course not. We never are. But that’s not the right question. The question is are we living a life that is worth the harm?" JOSEPH FINK and JEFFREY CRANOR
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Word of the day: ABULIA - the pathological inability to make decisions.
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Although only 836 people live in the French village of Montolieu, it has one bookshop for every 56 residents as well several workshops and museums dedicated to the craft of making books.
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Because the video for Janet Jackson’s song ‘Rhythm Nation’ contained a natural resonant frequency for a certain model of laptop hard drive, it would crash laptops playing the video. It could even crash laptops within earshot which weren’t playing it.
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