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January 14th was the Feast of the Ass in the medieval Christian calendar, a day when all Biblical donkeys were celebrated.
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Personal names mentioned in medieval charters include Martin-Said-to-Have-Three-Testicles (Martinus Qui Dicitur Habet Tres Testiculis), Good-John Shits-Rage (Iohannesbonus Cacans Rabiam), and Gerard-Who-Does-Stupid-Stuff (Girardus Faciens Stultitiam).
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People with imposter syndrome are actually better at their jobs than people without imposter syndrome.
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Willem Arondeus was an openly gay Dutch artist.
In 1943, he bombed the public records office in Amsterdam to prevent the identification of Jews by the Nazis.
His last words before being executed by the Gestapo were "tell the people that homosexuals can be brave!".
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Humans used to have a bone behind the knee called the fabella, but evolved not to have them. In 2019 the fabella was found to to be making a comeback. No one knows exactly why. (Image Jmarchn and Mikael Häggström CC BY-SA 3.0)
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The press release for the 1980 edition of ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’ contained a section with the following praise from the members of Monty Python. The total number of words is 42.
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A quote from US President Richard Nixon unearthed in 1997 said that had rap existed when he was young, he might have chosen to become a rapper instead of entering politics.
(Image: Nancy Wong; CC BY-SA.)
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Word of the Day: AGNOTOLOGY — the study of ignorance and of deliberate spreading of ignorance, confusion, and deceit.
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MI6 did, in fact, employ a spy named James Bond.
In 1964, James Albert Bond was sent to Warsaw to collect military secrets from behind the Iron Curtain.
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In 1931, a 17-year-old girl named Jackie Mitchell struck out both Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig.
A few days later, the baseball commissioner voided her contract and declared baseball "too strenuous" for women.
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When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent. ISAAC ASIMOV
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OCKHAM'S BROOM is a proposed addition to Occam's razor, and is "the principle whereby inconvenient facts are swept under the carpet".
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James Doohan, the actor for Star Trek's Scotty, was given an honorary doctorate by the Milwaukee School of Engineering after nearly half the student body cited him as their inspiration for pursuing engineering.
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"We are not nouns, we are verbs. I am not a thing – an actor, a writer – I am a person who does things – I write, I act – and I never know what I am going to do next. I think you can be imprisoned if you think of yourself as a noun." STEPHEN FRY
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Word of the day: UNASINOUS - sharing the same amount of stupidity, united in stupidity
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One horse produces 15 horsepower.
A human produces one horsepower.
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"It is likely I will die next to a pile of things I was meaning to read." LEMONY SNICKET
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In 2020, a French man was awarded €40,000 by a court because they determined his job was so incredibly boring it had damaged his mental health.
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In 1979, mathematicians David A. Cox and Steven Zucker wrote a joint paper about an algorithm that is now known as the ‘Cox-Zucker machine’.
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The ‘$@?%&*’ that you see in place of a swear word is called a grawlix.
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Word of the day: PENELOPISING - to deliberately delay finishing a task to avoid something else, as Penelope in the Odyssey
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How staples helped the Russians catch American spies. 🕵️ #QI
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The Swedish word for bat is ‘fladdermus’, literally ‘flappy mouse’.
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The Green Zone golf course straddles Finland and Sweden (seven holes in Finland and 11 in Sweden). On hole six, balls stay in the air for approximately an hour and three seconds due to the countries' differing time zones.
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Doing a Monty Python silly walk for only eleven minutes a day is as beneficial for your health as the recommended 75 minutes of vigorous physical activity a week. (Study: bit.ly/3jutecL; 📷: Jazeen Hollings.)
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A Quite Interesting Twitter feed from the team behind the BBC TV show QI.
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