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Word of the day: ABIBLIOPHOBIA - fear of running out of things to read
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“Pasta con le sarde a mare” is a Sicilian dish consisting of pasta with no sardines in it - literally “pasta with sardines [that are] in the sea”
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In 1945, American soldier Jack Lucas threw himself on two grenades; 250 pieces of shrapnel lodged in his body, but he survived. In 1961, he survived a jump when both of his parachutes failed. In 1977, his wife plotted to kill him. He died in 2008 at the age of 80.
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When IKEA first came to the US, American customers were buying flower vases to drink from, because IKEA’s own drinking glasses seemed too small to them.
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As well as centaurs, medieval literature also featured half-human, half-donkey onocentaurs, or ass centaurs.
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Samuel Beckett once was enjoying a walk with a friend on a sunny afternoon. The friend remarked it was a beautiful day that made one glad to be alive. Beckett replied, ‘I wouldn’t go that far’.
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In the early 1990s, a group of New York performance artists swapped the voice boxes of about 300 G.I. Joe and Barbie dolls and put them back in stores. A G.J. Joe would say ‘Will we ever have enough clothes?’ and a Barbie would say ‘Vengeance is mine!’ and ‘Eat lead, Cobra!’
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We are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody ever tell you any different. KURT VONNEGUT
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15% of Britons take 70% of the flights.
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Word of the Day: HEIMSCHEISSER (German slang) — someone who doesn’t like to use any toilet other than their own, literally: ‘a person who defecates only at home’.
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CYMROPHOBIA is fear of the Welsh.
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By 2100, dead Facebook users will outnumber the living.
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Sharing an article makes you think you know more, even if you didn't actually read the article.
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Stephen Spielberg has been thanked in more Oscar acceptance speeches than God has.
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There are two rhymes for orange in British English: Blorenge (a mountain in Wales) and sporange (a sac where spores are made).
However, the American pronunciation of orange has no rhyme.
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The world's most overdue library book was 287 years overdue when it was returned.
Colonel Robert Walpole borrowed it from Sidney Sussex College in Cambridge in 1667.
His biographer found it among his papers, and returned it to the college in 1956.
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The new mayor of Cockington in Devon has been banned from his local pub where he was a regular known for drinking Guinness.
He is also a four year old Shetland pony called Patrick.
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Birds have local dialects.
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The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. AMELIA EARHART
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When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent. ISAAC ASIMOV
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Word of the day: SHEMOMECHAMA (შემომეჭამა; Georgian) - when you did not mean to eat it all, but accidentally did
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MUSHROOM MANAGEMENT is the management style where employees are "kept in the dark and fed bullshit".
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"We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special." STEPHEN HAWKING
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There is a cheese-themed theme park in South Korea.
(Image: Republic of Korea; CC BY-SA.)
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The more you *think* you definitely understand more than the experts on a particular issue, the more likely you are to be wrong.
(Paper: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…)
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A Quite Interesting Twitter feed from the team behind the BBC TV show QI.
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