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In the UK, February is usually a drier month than August.
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‘Intransigence' is the longest word to make a palindrome in Morse Code: ··–·–·–··– –······– –··–·–·–··.
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The peregrine falcon has a series of baffles in its nostrils to prevent the air pressure bursting its lungs when it dives.
(Image: Greg Hume)
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Everywhere is walking distance if you've got the time.
STEVEN WRIGHT
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Liechtenstein only realised they had the same flag as Haiti when they both competed at the 1936 Olympics.
Liechtenstein added a crown to their flag in 1937 to avoid further confusion.
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Word of the day: NOTGEIL (German) - so horny it's an emergency
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This is how scientists predict the continents will move over the next 200 million years.
(Animation: Sammy2012; CC BY-SA.)
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When hunting, weasels and ferrets dance around their prey to disorient them.
It is called the "weasel war dance".
(Image: USFWS Mountain-Prairie; CC BY.)
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You are more likely to get a virus from a religious website than a porn website.
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"[Australians] spend half of any conversation insisting that the country's dangers are vastly overrated... and the other half telling you how six months ago Uncle Bob was driving to Mudgee when a tiger snake slid out from under the dashboard and bit him on the groin." BILL BRYSON
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Word of the Day: PODSNAPPERY - an absolute refusal to accept unpleasant truths.
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Colorado, Washington, and Idaho have all replaced their "420" mile markers with "419.9" after repeated thefts.
(Image: Robert Ashworth; CC BY.)
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"I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day." DOUGLAS ADAMS
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When they sleep in a flock, some birds form a row. Those in the middle sleep with both hemispheres of the brain at the same time, and those at the edges go into deep sleep with only one hemisphere each — leaving one’s right eye and another’s left eye to watch out for predators.
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Japanese parents have recently started commissioning bags of rice that weigh the same as their newborn children so that their relatives, who are unable to visit them due to the pandemic, could have the experience of hugging the baby.
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‘Nuair a chacann gé, cacann siad go léir’ is an Irish proverb about group mentality that literally translates as ‘When one goose shits, they all shit’.
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The Hawaiian language has 139 words for rain.
(Image: W.carter)
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Bees can count to four but score higher marks when punished for getting their answers wrong.
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The Spanish word for cardigan is 'rebeca’ based on the one Joan Fontaine wore in the 1940 Hitchcock film ‘Rebecca’.
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Cleopatra was living in Rome as Julius Caesar’s mistress at the time of his assassination.
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Vincent Van Gogh once worked as a supply teacher in Ramsgate.
(Image: Anthonydpadgett)
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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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Word of the day: LOGODIARRHOEA - an uncontrolled flow of words
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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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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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