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Word of the day: NANNICK (early 20th century English dialect) - to fool around when you really should be working
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A fart travels about eight inches per minute.
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"The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat." LILY TOMLIN
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The tiny town of Rabbit Hash, Kentucky has only ever elected dogs as mayor.
The current mayor is a French bulldog. He took over from a pit bull named Brynneth Pawltro.
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Wembley Stadium has more toilets than any other sporting venue in the world, enough for a new toilet every day for 7 and a half years (if you wanted to try them all).
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Since he tried to record everything that was ever known into his books, St Isidore of Seville (560 - 636CE) is the unofficial patron saint of the Internet.
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Word of the Day: SLOTCH (South Lancashire, 19th Century) — a gluttonous, drunken clown.
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Batman once had an enemy called Hatman who was obsessed with stealing headwear.
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The James Bond theme music was written by composer Monty Norman. He based it on his earlier piece, a composition (with words) for a stage production of V.S. Naipaul’s novel ‘A House For Mr. Biswas’, where the tune is played on a sitar.
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The U.S. Department of State’s anti-corruption coordinator is a man called Rich Nephew.
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Thank God for books as an alternative to conversation. W.H. AUDEN
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"When I was a child, adults would tell me not to make things up, warning me of what would happen if I did. As far as I can tell so far, it seems to involve lots of foreign travel and not having to get up too early in the morning." NEIL GAIMAN
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Word of the day: GUBBSJUKA (Swedish) - literally "old man sickness", when old men lust after (much) younger women
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"It's my belief we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain." LILY TOMLIN
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A RECURSIVE LAKE is a lake located on an island within a lake.
For instance, Lake Yathkyed in Canada has islands in lakes on islands in lakes on islands in lakes.
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Mount Thor in Canada has the world's longest vertical drop.
If you fell off it, you would fall for over a kilometer before you hit anything.
(Image: Peter Morgan; CC BY-NC-ND.)
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In 2019 a Japanese student of the history of ninjas received top marks for writing her essay in invisible ink.
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The man who wrote the preamble to the US constitution died due to an infection after he inserted a whalebone into his urethra.
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PLEONASM is the term for redundant expressions - like "ATM machine", "hot water heater", or "free gift".
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Word of the Day: NOODLEDOM — a collective term for a group of fools.
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Plankton don’t swim, they float. Anything that looks like plankton but actively swims is called nekton.
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People think that stories are shaped by people. In fact, it’s the other way around. TERRY PRATCHETT
1048
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A single editor has removed the phrase "comprised of" from Wikipedia - 47,000 times.
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Adults spend about half their time daydreaming.
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Earlier this year, New Zealand police tried a new tactic to get protestors to disperse.
They played James Blunt's "You're Beautiful" at high volume.
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A Quite Interesting Twitter feed from the team behind the BBC TV show QI.
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