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The author of "Jaws" regrets writing the book. He feels it made people too afraid of sharks; he spent much of the rest of his life as an activist for shark conservation.
(Image: Tambako The Jaguar; CC BY-NC-ND.)
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"We're each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark?" URSULA K. LEGUIN
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Richard Norris Williams was advised to have his legs amputated after he survived the sinking of the Titanic, but he instead walked it off and won the Men’s Doubles Championships at Wimbledon in 1920.
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In the late 19th century, German language purists wanted to substitute the word ‘Perücke’ (‘wig’) for ‘Kahlkopfverlegenheitsabhelfer’, which means ‘Bald-Head-Embarrassment-Remedy’.
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Writer of ‘Groundhog Day’ Danny Rubin has said that there is only one appropriate way to make a sequel to the original film. It would be called “Groundhog Day II: Return to Punxsutawney” and would just be a repeat of the original movie.
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Taking several pictures of something causes you to remember it worse than if you just looked at it.
This is called the “photo-taking-impairment effect”.
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In 2007, a Bosnian couple cheated on each other - with each other.
They had spent time in a chat room bonding about their marital woes. When they met in person, they found out the person they had been complaining to was their spouse.
They got divorced.
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"Susan hated Literature. She'd much prefer to read a good book." TERRY PRATCHETT
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In 1982, 43% of fathers in the UK had never changed a nappy.
By 2000, this had dropped to 3%.
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In 1963, a Turkish man was remodeling his home and knocked down a wall.
He discovered an entire underground city behind it - capable of holding 20,000 residents.
(Image: Nevit Dilmen; CC BY-SA.)
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The chocolatey filling between the wafers in a KitKat is made out of recycled KitKats.
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A long term study of nearly half a million people found that those who eat spicy food 6 or 7 days a week live longer than those that don’t.
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Dogs will share food with other dogs but, despite our 15,000+ year reciprocal relationship, they won’t share with humans.
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Plants make aspirin when they’re stressed.
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Anannatannassamitindriya is a Sanskrit word for the feeling that there must be a word for a feeling that you can’t name. Its literal translation is ‘I-will-come-to-know-what-is-unknown’.
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Mosquitos don't like EDM.
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Citizens who oppose any changes in their communities are sometimes called CAVE people - Citizens Against Virtually Everything.
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There are about 20 quadrillion ants, or 2.5 million ants for every person on Earth.
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Word of the day: SOLIVAGANT - a person who enjoys wandering by themselves.
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It seems to come around sooner every year! twitter.com/qikipedia/stat…
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A SKUNKED TERM is a word that is difficult to use because it is transitioning from one meaning to another.
For instance, "it's all downhill from here" once meant "to become easier" but is now widely used to mean "to become more difficult".
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The oldest known D20 is from 300 BCE.
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A study of 7000 US adults has found that after the COVID-19 pandemic, people have become less extroverted and less agreeable.
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Unhappy people tend to daydream about the past, but happy people tend to daydream about the future.
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Word of the day: HOMOPHOBIAPHOBIA - fear or dislike of homophobes
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