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If Elon Musk lost 99.9% of his net worth, he would still have $250 million to his name.
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Patrick Harvie is the only member of the Scottish Parliament in history to have been cleared of the charge of blasphemy. The charge was brought by Donald Trump.
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Stephen Hawking was born on the anniversary of Galileo Galilei’s death (January 8) and died on Albert Einstein’s birthday (March 14).
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Competitive chair-sitting is an endurance sport that involves sitting in extreme environments like deserts or the Antarctic from sunrise to sunset without a watch and any electronic devices. The sport was invented by Robert Silk, who to this day remains its only practitioner.
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WEBSITE OF THE DAY: The one where you click to ‘drop’ a raindrop anywhere in the world and track its path down rivers and streams watching where it ends up. river-runner-global.samlearner.com
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Signs about traffic accident statistics were added to many US roads in order to remind drivers to pay attention.
New research suggests drivers get distracted reading them and are more likely to get in a crash.
(Image: B137; CC BY-SA.)
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NASA's top priority this decade is probing Uranus.
(Image: Judy Schmidt; CC BY.)
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"If you speak when angry, you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret." GROUCHO MARX
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Word of the day: DECIDOPHOBIA - the fear of making the wrong decision
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The world’s largest single-celled organism is Valonia ventricosa, a sea-algae that can get to 5 centimetres in diameter.
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The elephant shrew is the world’s fastest small mammal: they can reach speeds of 28.8 km/h. [📷: Joey Makalintal CCA 2.0]
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Men are 28 times more likely to have an object stuck in their rectums than women.
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Bees can be pessimistic.
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You know the very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. They don't alter their views to fit the facts. They alter the facts to fit their views. DOCTOR WHO, 1977
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In Norway, you can look up anyone's tax returns and see how much money they made - but they can see that you've looked.
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Some restaurant owners in China have tried an unusual method to get customers to keep coming back.
At least 215 restaurants have been caught lacing their noodles with opiates to addict their customers.
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In Italy, it is not a crime to steal food if you are hungry.
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This ancient tablet includes a list of reasons that people missed work.
Reasons include being ill - but also such excuses as "brewing beer" and "drinking".
(Image: The Trustees of the British Museum; CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
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The average number of meetings a worker has per day has doubled since 2020.
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"If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they're happy." DOROTHY PARKER
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The Tour de France employs a specialist team to adapt or destroy all images of genitals that people paint on the route.
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An Ancient Roman mosaic in Sicily shows women sometimes wore bikinis.
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Word of the Day: GUBU - acronym coined in Ireland in 1982 to describe political scandals, standing for Grotesque, Unbelievable, Bizarre and Unprecedented.
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House cats definitely learn the names of other cats they live with and possibly the names of humans they live with. (Study: go.nature.com/39xzHid.)
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A ‘libfix’ is a part of a word that’s ‘liberated’ and used to create new words. Libfixes include the ‘gate’ from Watergate (making eg plebgate and partygate); the ‘athon’ in marathon (eg walkathon and telethon); and the ‘licious’ in delicious (eg bootylicious, babelicious).
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A Quite Interesting Twitter feed from the team behind the BBC TV show QI.
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