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"Beauty doesn't have to be about anything. What's a vase about? What's a sunset or a flower about? What, for that matter, is Mozart's Twenty-third Piano Concerto about?" DOUGLAS ADAMS
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What do they say?
WHAT DO THEY SAY! twitter.com/BillBailey/sta…
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Last year, a nine-year old female macaque at the Takasakiyama Natural Zoological Garden violently overthrew the previous male leader.
She is the one of the first known female macaques to contest leadership of her troop.
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There is a museum in Australia entirely dedicated to animal droppings that is called Pooseum.
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"Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear." OSCAR WILDE
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Climate change is making albatrosses more likely to divorce.
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The Mafra Palace Library in Portugal has an army of bats that come out each night and dine on the insects that want to eat their 14-19th century leather bound books.
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In the 1980s you had 17 minutes to escape a house fire in the average American home, but because of the flammability of modern furniture, it’s now closer to 3 minutes.
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Word of the day: MUCK-SPOUT (19th century) - someone who swears too much
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A marine worm called Ramisyllis multicaudata has a single head and hundreds of bums. Its body branches off in all directions and each branch has its own butthole. (Image: Sarah Faulwetter)
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In 12th-century Milan, many politicians had surnames starting ‘Caga’ or ‘Caca’, i.e. ‘shit’. For instance, Gregorio Cacainarca (Gregorio the Shit-In-a-Box); Arderico Cagainosa (Arderico the Shit-In-Your-Pants); and Girardo Cagapisto (Girardo the Shit-Pesto). (h/t @ProfSimonton)
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"The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair." DOUGLAS ADAMS
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Catch-22 was rejected for publication 22 times.
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A single editor has removed the phrase "comprised of" from Wikipedia - 47,000 times.
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According to a study by Cardiff University, both men and women are judged to look better when they are wearing a face mask.
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In September, a bar-tailed godwit flew 8,100 miles for 239 hours without rest from Alaska to New Zealand and set the world record for the longest continual flight by any land bird by distance. [📷: Onioram CC by SA 4.0]
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Word of the day: MICROLIPET - someone who is continually getting worked up about absolutely trivial things
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Many happy returns to the wonderful @stephenfry on his birthday, from all of us at QI!
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The poo of iron age people shows humans were eating blue cheese and drinking beer 2700 years ago.
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The shred of skin that peels off after sunburn is called a blype.
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A small bog is called a 'boglet'.
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When restaurants play classical music in the background, diners spend 10% more per person. When they play pop music, diners spend 10% less.
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In 2011, the Romanian government started requiring witches pay taxes on their earnings.
Witches promptly cursed the government.
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One of the miracles associated with St Nicholas was the restoring to life of three young boys who had been dismembered by a cruel butcher and thrown into a brine tub.
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Word of the day: HOMOPHOBIAPHOBIA - fear or dislike of homophobes
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