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"I called him Simon Ferocious or something, and he didn't like it at all.” - Freddie Mercury on meeting Sid Vicious.
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Your BOUDOIR was originally your room for sulking.
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In order to test in-flight wifi, Boeing fills their planes with potatoes.
Potatoes interfere with signals the same way as the human body.
The project was called Synthetic Personnel Using Dialectic Substitution (SPUDS).
(Edited image: Superjet International)
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Word of the day: SORRY-GO-ROUND (19th century) - a depressing set of repetitive events
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The steeper the street you live on, the less likely you are to be robbed.
Criminologists speculate that this may be because criminals don't feel like climbing hills.
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Instead of requesting a traditional wake-up call in a hotel, the French writer Alphonse Allais would have the concierge call the room on either side of his one in order ‘to be gently woken by the sound of your neighbours’ protests’.
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Space X’s satellite dishes are heated to prevent snow build up. American cats have discovered this and are curling up on the dishes to warm themselves on cold days, interrupting streaming services.
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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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Olivia Newton-John’s maternal grandfather was the physicist Max Born, who won the 1954 Nobel Prize for his research in quantum mechanics. Her father was the MI5 officer Brinley Newton-John, who helped break the Enigma codes. Her third cousin is Ben Elton.
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The small village of Villar de Corneja, Spain celebrates the New Year at noon instead of midnight, as many of the residents are elderly and want to go to bed early.
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A wet man does not fear rain. - RUSSIAN PROVERB
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The suggested terms for a person who has received two doses of a coronavirus vaccine include ‘recidivac’, ‘boxer’ (=one who has two jabs), ‘doppio’ (=a double espresso shot), ‘binoculated’, and ‘a complete prick’. (h/t @dontattempt)
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Buying your dog a toy will make you happier than buying yourself something of equivalent cost.
(Image: Eric Sonstroem; CC BY.)
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Humans have the largest bottoms in the animal kingdom relative to body size.
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"Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog. Make sure everything you do is so completely crazy it's unbelievable." ROALD DAHL
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Forty camels were disqualified from a beauty pageant in Saudi Arabia this week.
Officials realized the camels had received Botox and fillers to appear more beautiful.
(Image: Tambako The Jaguar; CC BY-NC.)
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The ‘seeds’ on a strawberry are actually its fruit, and inside those tiny fruit are its seeds.
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Because of wildfires – many of them started deliberately to clear land for agriculture - the Amazon rainforest now releases more carbon into the atmosphere than it is removes.
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According to addiction researchers, it is extremely difficult to get hamsters drunk.
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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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This colour - Pantone 448 C - is considered to be the ugliest in the world.
When the Australian Department of Health referred to it as "olive green", the Australian Olive Association complained that this denigrated olives.
(Image: علاء; CC BY-SA.)
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According to The Malcolm Tucker Awards for Excellence in Swearing, the best ‘sweary moment’ of 2021 in sports was on April 24th, when the teams in the MLB’s American League West division were ranked so that their logos spelled out ‘ASSHAT’.
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For a couple of years, Snoop Dogg and Picasso were alive at the same time.
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Word of the day: PANPHOBIA - irrational fear of absolutely everything
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In 1993, a man in Brazil tried to rob a glue factory, but accidentally knocked over two large cans and spilled the contents. The police found him glued to the floor, not being able to move.
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