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This is of course supposed to say by-product, not bi-product. We are not aware of the sexual orientation of any produce relating to the Beaufort cheese industry. Our apologies for the typo. twitter.com/qikipedia/stat…
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This is the Australian orb-weaving spider commonly known as the ‘alien butt spider’. (Image: Robert Whyte)
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A kitchen sponge is a better environment for growing bacteria than a petri dish.
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Scientists have discovered when shrikes, a type of carnivorous bird, are flying overhead, Mongolian voles trim the grass around them because shrikes associate cut grass with poor hunting grounds.
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Word of the Day: TERGIVERSATION - a slippery refusal to give a straight answer
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Japan’s poo museum features a giant inflatable poo that erupts miniature toy-poos every 30 minutes.
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Whales lower their voice to a whisper when communicating with their young to keep them safe from predators.
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Global revenue from cybercrime is approximately $1.5tn a year; greater than Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, and Google’s annual takings combined.
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You can tell a legless lizard from a snake because it blinks.
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A 1940s Australian expression for surprise was "stiffen the wombats!"
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Bolivia has a 5,000 man strong navy. What Bolivia does not have is a coastline.
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In the mid-1990s, Louisiana authorities put a parrot into witness protection.
The parrot had previously been owned by a crime boss, and had seen some things and would occasionally talk about them.
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On 10 March 2015, Ireland accidentally legalised 125 drugs for one day, including ketamine, ecstasy and crystal meth.
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In 2009, a set of identical twins was arrested for a jewelry heist in Germany.
DNA evidence proved that at least one of them was at the crime scene. But since it was impossible to prove which individual was guilty, both were acquitted.
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JRR Tolkien invented Ents because when he was a schoolboy, he had been disappointed that Birnam Wood did not really "come to Dunsinane" in Macbeth.
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20% of dogs love being told they're a good dog more than they love food.
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"We will be restoring normality just as soon as we are sure what is normal anyway." DOUGLAS ADAMS
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Physicists at Cornell University have proposed that there is a second, twin Universe, a mirror image of our own, that is running backwards in time.
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Dragonfly’s wings are highly efficient bacteria killers. They are covered in nano pillars which tear bacteria apart if they come into contact with them.
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There was less lightning in the world during the Covid lockdowns.
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What do they say?
WHAT DO THEY SAY! twitter.com/BillBailey/sta…
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The Mars rover Perseverance has measured the speed of sound on Mars and it’s about 100 m/s slower than the speed of sound on Earth.
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All British cows must have passports.
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In 1989, the Australian Labor Party insisted they weren’t bribing voters with a pre-election barbecue and denied “being involved in the dissemination of sausages”.
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The World Octopus Wrestling Championships took place in 1963 and then never again.
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