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After Christmas, many zoos give used Christmas trees to their animals as enrichment.
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This year, New Zealand's "Bird of the Year" contest was won by a bat.
(Image: Shellie; CC-BY-NC-ND.)
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Everywhere is walking distance if you've got the time.
STEVEN WRIGHT
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The ‘couth’ in the word ‘uncouth’ is related to the word ‘kith’, as in ‘kith and kin’, and means ‘known’. So, ‘uncouth’ originally meant ‘unknown’, then ‘unfamiliar, strange’, and only later came to mean ‘uncultured, bad-mannered’.
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Out of 145 murders recorded in London for the year 1278, two resulted from a quarrel over a game of chess.
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In Italy, it is not a crime to steal food if you are hungry.
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An ATOMIC TYPO is a typo that results in a correctly spelled word, just not the one you intended to write.
For instance, you might type "pubic" for "public".
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The gene that makes small dogs small also appears to make them more feisty.
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In Norway, you can look up anyone's tax returns and see how much money they made - but they can see that you've looked.
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The word ‘uncle’ comes from the Latin word ‘avunculus’, which literally means ‘little grandfather’.
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According to some physicists, there is no such thing as "now".
Since we must wait for light to travel to us to react to something, and the brain must process the information, we are effectively all living (about twenty milliseconds) in the past.
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Climate change is making it harder to sleep - on average, you are losing 44 hours of sleep a year due to higher temperatures.
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Word of the Day: IRRITAINMENT — an extremely annoying media spectacle that you can’t stop watching.
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The coal, oil and gas we burn each year requires as much organic matter to make as the entire planet grows in roughly 600 years.
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WEBSITE OF THE DAY: The one where you click to ‘drop’ a raindrop anywhere in the world and track its path down rivers and streams watching where it ends up. river-runner-global.samlearner.com
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"To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem." DOUGLAS ADAMS
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In general, your favourite songs are the songs you were listening to when you were 13.
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The average traffic speed in modern-day Central London is about the same speed as it was when the streets were filled with horse-drawn carriages.
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The first woman to circumnavigate the globe was the botanist Jeanne Baret, who disguised herself as a male valet on de Bougainville’s expedition of 1766-69.
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In 1795, a French cavalry regiment won a battle against a Dutch naval fleet.
The fleet had frozen in ice, so the cavalry just rode up and surrounded them.
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Frequent watchers of online cat videos are shyer than those who don't often watch cat videos, but they are also nicer people.
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Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
CYRIL CONNOLLY
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You likely overestimate how interesting you are to talk to, but underestimate how good you are at dancing.
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Zebras are black with white stripes, not white with black stripes.
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The bonnacon is a mythical creature with the body of a bull, the mane of a horse and the ability to expel corrosive faeces with great force.
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