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Streaming a movie on a gaming console can use 45 times more power than a normal streaming device - gaming consoles aren’t good at using the minimum required energy for the task at hand.
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Americans today have approximately 64 billion bones between them. In 65 million years, only about 50 of these bones will survive in the fossil record.
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Men are 28 times more likely to have an object stuck in their rectums than women.
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In England in the 1700s, 90% of men had one of these eight names: John, Edward, William, Henry, Charles, James, Richard, Robert.
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Analysis of their earwax shows that World War II was stressful for whales.
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A study showed that mosquitoes in the Central, Victoria, and Bakerloo lines of the Tube are genetically different from each other. According to the researcher, the only way for them to get genetically mixed would be ‘for all of them to change trains at Oxford Circus station’.
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"If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be 'meetings'." DAVE BARRY
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Cat owners are sometimes called "Dosenöffner" - can openers - in German.
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This is what the inside of a child's skull (with baby teeth) looks like.
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Open plan offices increase worker stress, blood pressure, and turnover.
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There is no such thing as an "alpha male" in a wolf pack.
Unrelated wolves in captivity can form a hierarchy, but there is no evidence of this behavior in the wild.
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Word of the day: TUROPHILE: a lover of cheese or ‘cheese fancier’.
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Some clubs use free lollipops to calm patrons at the end of the night, because it’s hard to shout at someone with a lollipop in your mouth.
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The Italian bank Credito Emiliano accepts wheels of Parmesan cheese as loan collateral.
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Tomato plants emit ultrasonic sounds when they’re stressed.
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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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In 2018, Munafri Arifuddin ran unopposed for mayor of Makassar, Indonesia.
He lost the election to "none of the above".
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If you are listening to something boring, doodling while you listen will improve your recall by 30%.
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In the 16th century, Danish king Christian IV required captains of ships passing by Denmark to pay taxes.
They were allowed to declare their cargo at whatever value they chose, without further audit, but the king reserved the right to buy the cargo at that price.
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Phrase of the Day: ‘avoir le cul entre deux chaises’ (French) - to be torn by a dilemma (literally ‘to have one’s arse between two chairs’).
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For Christmas 1936, Salvador Dalí sent Harpo Marx a harp with barbed-wire strings. Harpo sent back a photograph of himself with bandaged fingers.
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Bees on cocaine tend to overestimate their nectar and pollen gathering skills.
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Internet trolls are just as badly behaved offline.
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The Khasi people of India make bridges by shaping live tree roots.
Since the trees and roots are still alive, a living bridge can last as long as the tree lives - hundreds of years.
(Image: Anselmrogers; CC BY-SA.)
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In 2020 Mathdaniel Squirrel won Name of the Year, beating Courvoisier Dingle, Beanbag Amerika and mathematician Dr Reason Machete.
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A Quite Interesting Twitter feed from the team behind the BBC TV show QI.
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