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The oldest recorded joke (from 1900 BCE) was a fart joke.
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Word of the day: FRÜHJAHRSMÜDIGKEIT (German) - literally "spring fatigue", exhaustion felt in spring, possibly from allergies or the changing weather
About half of Germans report that they have suffered from Frühjahrsmüdigkeit.
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A 2012 study suggested that men who wear pink earn more than those who are not willing to wear pink.
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"Fart" is one of the oldest words in the English language.
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In England in the 1700s, 90% of men had one of these eight names: John, Edward, William, Henry, Charles, James, Richard, Robert.
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In 1790, Xavier de Maistre, an aristocrat under house arrest in Italy, wrote up a tour of his bedroom into a book.
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When jelly babies first grew popular in the Victorian era, they were marketed as ‘unclaimed babies’.
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Word of the Day: FORJESKIT (Scots) - exhausted from working too much
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This is what the inside of a child's skull (with baby teeth) looks like.
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Thomas Aquinas identified five types of gluttony:
Laute - eating food that is too luxurious
Studiose - eating food too daintily
Nimis - eating too much food
Praepropere - eating at an inappropriate time
Ardenter - eating too eagerly
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Last month, gravitational wave scientists took suggestions for the collective noun for a group of black holes.
They've narrowed down the list to ten, and are considering: graveyard, horde, perforation, swarm, colloquium, disaster, sieve, brood and doom.
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Being in love makes food taste sweeter.
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A marine worm called Ramisyllis multicaudata has a single head and hundreds of bums. Its body branches off in all directions and each branch has its own butthole. (Image: Sarah Faulwetter)
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The newly restored 14th century shrine of St Amphibalus at St Albans cathedral features a carving of a head wearing a facemask to commemorate the shrine’s restoration during the pandemic. (Image: St Albans Cathedral)
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Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless. BILL WATTERSON
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In the 1800s, ducks were sometimes called ‘arsefeet’ because their feet are so close to their bottoms.
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A wheeple is an ineffectual attempt to whistle loudly.
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Word of the day: CONFELICITY - joy in the happiness of others.
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Tomato plants emit ultrasonic sounds when they’re stressed.
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Scholars in the Middle Ages popped the ‘b’ into the word debt because of its Latin origins (debitum), despite the fact that it came to English from the French word dette and was never pronounced. They same applies to doubt, plumber, subtle, indict and island.
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In 2019, climbers left an estimated 8,000 kg of poo at a single camp on Mount Everest.
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The Dutch town of Nieuwkoop has a literal ‘red light district’ for bats. At night, the town is lit by red street lights that are less disruptive to bat activity than white ones.
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Following a recent salmonella outbreak, the US Centres for Disease Control has warned people not to ‘kiss or snuggle’ their chickens.
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Every actor has to make terrible films from time to time, but the trick is never to be terrible in them. – CHRISTOPHER LEE (1922-2015)
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Peacocks fake orgasm noises to trick peahens into thinking they’re more sexually active.
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