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If an election in New Mexico is tied, the two candidates play a single hand of poker as a tiebreaker.
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About 1.69 million Britons have three or more nipples.
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It is against US federal law to correspond with a pirate.
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Word of the Day: OMNIBIBULOUS — someone who drinks everything.
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James Joyce believed he would recognise his wife Nora’s fart anywhere and would ‘pick hers out in a roomful of farting women’.
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At room temperature, the inside of a cucumber can be up to 20 degrees cooler than the outside air.
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The Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard had 50 sets of cups and saucers for coffee. Each day his secretary had to decide on a set, and convincingly justify their choice.
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Word of the Day: QUOMODOCUNQUINZING (17th century) - making money any way you can.
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I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free - MICHELANGELO
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According to the UK Deed Poll Service, every week at least one person requests ‘Danger’ as a middle name.
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Phrase of the Day: FART IN A COLANDER (naval slang) — describing indecisive behaviour: ‘rushing about like a fart in a colander, not sure which hole to come out of’.
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Paper planes are older than planes, so they were originally known as paper darts. (Image from 1882).
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Each ear of corn always has an even number of rows.
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The female blue tit weaves aromatic plants like lavender and mint into its nest to ward off bacteria, fungi and insects.
(Image: Francis C. Franklin)
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For every mile of British railway laid in the 19th century, a thousand pounds was spent on booze by the construction teams (equivalent to £25,000 today).
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Recent analysis of medieval skeletons indicated that the fashion for ever more pointy shoes caused serious damage to wealthy people’s feet.
(Image: Metropolitan Museum of Art)
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Learned behaviours passed on though culture may now be influencing human evolution faster than genetic mutations and natural selection.
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In 1920, Dorothy Parker met her editor for brunch. He fired her. She ordered the most expensive dessert on the menu and left.
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There have never been any “Good Old Days,” there have just been days. KURT VONNEGUT
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In 2019, a Russian police officer was constantly asked by the regional prosecutor’s office to question a witness who had died a year before. The officer finally went to a medium and wrote a report saying he tried to contact the soul of the witness during a séance but to no avail.
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Lough Hyne in Ireland is gloomy enough that deep sea sponges which normally only survive at the bottom of the ocean have been living successfully there as shallow as 5 metres down for over 20 years.
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Before X-rays were invented and xylophones became widely known, alphabet books sometimes said X was for ‘xany’, an early form of ‘zany’ meaning an idle person.
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Word of the Day: SPREZZATURA (Italian) - the art of carefully cultivated nonchalance to hide the effort you’re actually making
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A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale. MARIE CURIE
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According to new research, less than 1% of Internet communities start 74% of conflicts.
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