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Word of the day: TEMPORICIDE - the act of killing time
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About one quarter of the world's hazelnut production is used just to make Nutella.
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The Three Gorges dam in China shifted so much water when it was built that it slowed the world’s rotation (but only by 0.06 microseconds) and moved the poles by 2cm.
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Word of the day: FLÂNEUR - a person who strolls through the city, people-watching
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83% of Britain’s department stores have closed since 2016.
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By law, over a third of all songs played on Canadian radio must feature Canadian music, artists, performances or lyrics. This rule is known as the MAPL system.
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Paris, Texas has an Eiffel Tower with a cowboy hat on it.
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Japanese streets typically have no names. Instead, blocks are used as the unit for addresses: what we call a street is just an empty space between blocks in Japan.
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Darth Vader's heavy breathing is trademarked.
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Doctors in Canada can prescribe a visit to a national park.
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If a dog jumps up into your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer. ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD.
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I use a lot of what I learned from chess in my day to day life. For example, I never let a horse position itself so it can attack both me and my wife in a single move. COREY MOHLER
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In 1999 a racehorse called Geespot was born. Her parents were named Pursuit of Love and My Discovery.
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Voltaire was so frustrated with English spelling that he is said to have wished that one half of the English language be taken by the plague and the other by the ague.
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75 acts are competing to represent San Marino at @Eurovision 2022. That’s more than three acts for every square mile of San Marino.
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"Are we living a life that is safe from harm?
Of course not. We never are. But that’s not the right question. The question is are we living a life that is worth the harm?" JOSEPH FINK and JEFFREY CRANOR
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In 2015, a young man named Bud Weiser was arrested while trespassing at a Budweiser brewery.
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Cats have object permanence.
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To fund his PhD Neil DeGrasse Tyson almost became a stripper. After watching friends set fire to their asbestos-lined underwear at a show, he decided to teach instead.
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The last vote needed to pass women's suffrage in the United States was that of Tennessee legislator Harry Burn.
While he was initially opposed to the amendment, his mother had told him to "be a good boy" and vote for it - so he did.
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Scientists are developing new laser scanning techniques to determine just how fat the fat bears of Fat Bear Week are.
(Image: Katmai National Park and Preserve.)
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The UK has approx. one pub for every 1400 people.
Rhayader, Wales holds the crown for most pubs per capita; in 2008, it had one pub for every 173 residents.
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“Pasta con le sarde a mare” is a Sicilian dish consisting of pasta with no sardines in it - literally “pasta with sardines [that are] in the sea”
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Vincent Van Gogh once worked as a supply teacher in Ramsgate.
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In late 2020, a Namibian politician named Adolf Hitler won election to local office.
Adolf is a common name in the country, and his father (who named him) did not know the significance of the name. He says he has no plans for world domination.
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