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Short men really are more aggressive.
952
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Word of the day: PRECRASTINATION - doing something too quickly or too early to get it out of the way
953
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Scientists at the University of East Anglia spent seven years trying to discover why men exist.
954
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There is no evidence stretching before you exercise reduces the risk of injury.
955
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Reading spoilers beforehand doesn't spoil the fun - knowing the plot beforehand actually enhances your enjoyment.
956
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"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored." ALDOUS HUXLEY
957
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83% of Britain’s department stores have closed since 2016.
958
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The world record for the longest time handcuffed to another human is 123 days, achieved by a couple who kept breaking up and then getting back together and wanted to save their relationship. After the handcuffing, they swore never to get back together.
959
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Schwartz’s Chinese Five Spice powder contains six spices.
960
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Word of the Day: MONOMATH (neologism) — ‘a person with an exhaustive knowledge of a single, often utterly trivial, subject’.
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Early American trains had wood-burning engines that would spew embers into the passenger cars, so some railways gave each passenger a bucket of sand to pour on a neighbour if they caught fire.
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In Polish slang, if you want to say that someone is overdressed, you can say that they are ‘dressed up like a rat for the opening of a sewer’.
963
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It would be a good thing to buy books if one could also buy the time to read them. ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
964
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Global warming may lead to larger snakes.
(Image: Charles Baker; CC BY-SA.)
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"To summarise the summary of the summary: people are a problem." DOUGLAS ADAMS
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Bees are now legally considered a type of fish in California.
967
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The official @kfc Twitter account follows eleven people: six men named Herb and the five Spice Girls.
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The Michelin of Michelin starred restaurants is the same Michelin that makes tyres.
They started producing the guide - and reviewing restaurants - in order to encourage people to drive more.
969
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Mice find being near bananas stressful.
970
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Town planners in Porters Lake, Nova Scotia seem to have run out of ideas.
There are streets named "This Street", "That Street", and "The Other Street".
971
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Isaac Roberts took this photo of the Andromeda galaxy in 1888, almost 100 years before the invention of ciabatta bread.
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In a similar way to tree rings being made, periods of stress in our lives can show up in our teeth.
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Word of the Day: CAGADUBTES (Catalan slang) — literally: ‘someone who shits doubts’; a person who has a hard time making decisions.
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In a 1666 paper for the Royal Society of London, physicist Robert Boyle listed things to be researched about coal mines including whether coal miners ever meet subterranean demons.
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Human skin has no wetness receptors. You can only feel that something is wet by sensing a cold temperature, combined with a certain texture and pressure your brain has learned to associate with ‘wetness’.
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