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If you want to use a photo of the Eiffel Tower for commercial purposes, you need permission if it was taken at night but not if it was taken in the day. The copyright on the tower and its image has expired, but the copyright on the tower illumination installed in 1989 has not.
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According to the 2021 Global Drug Survey, Irish people are the most likely to get drunk and then regret it.
(Chart by @_LutherAF_.)
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Word of the Day: PHILODOX - someone who is in love with their own opinions
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Word of the day: FORPLAINT - to be tired from complaining so much
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"Beauty doesn't have to be about anything. What's a vase about? What's a sunset or a flower about? What, for that matter, is Mozart's Twenty-third Piano Concerto about?" DOUGLAS ADAMS
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Forty camels were disqualified from a beauty pageant in Saudi Arabia this week.
Officials realized the camels had received Botox and fillers to appear more beautiful.
(Image: Tambako The Jaguar; CC BY-NC.)
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According to a study by the University of Liverpool and Liverpool John Moores University, all cats have "an element of psychopathy".
(Image: MisterDesgraciao; CC BY-SA.)
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"Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual." TERRY PRATCHETT
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In 1974, Oliver Postgate made a special episode of the Clangers called ‘Vote for Froglet’ as a satirical response to the political process which he thought ‘completely buggered by inter-party squabbling.’
Image: BennyOnTheLoose, CC BY-SA 4.0
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A sense of disconnect between what you have objectively achieved and your feelings about it, an inability to see your own success, is called PRODUCTIVITY DYSMORPHIA.
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The most common lake name in Finland is Mustalampi, ‘Black Lake’. The second most common lake name is Paskalampi, ‘Shit Lake’.
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The word ‘naughty’ is related to the word ‘nought’ and originally meant ‘poor, needy’, then ‘wicked’, then ‘immoral, promiscuous’, and only then ‘disobedient, badly behaved’.
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Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance. KURT VONNEGUT
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Rocket scientists are not, on average, smarter than the general population.
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Cats cannot make long-term plans.
(Image: Stefan Tell; CC BY.)
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The average dog knows 89 words.
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V is the only letter that is never silent in English.
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"If you trust in yourself and believe in your dreams and follow your star, you’ll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren’t so lazy." TERRY PRATCHETT
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We've all got a story about family board games at Christmas, but Sara's is a tough one to beat.
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Zebras are black with white stripes, not white with black stripes.
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Queen Victoria owned a musical bustle that played the national anthem every time she sat down.
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During WWII, a Great Dane named Juliana was awarded a medal by Blue Cross for her heroism in disarming a German incendiary device.
She urinated on the bomb.
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Japanese streets typically have no names. Instead, blocks are used as the unit for addresses: what we call a street is just an empty space between blocks in Japan.
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