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Word of the Day: BACKFRIEND - a friend who secretly does not like you at all
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Fans of films about the zombie apocalypse found dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic easier.
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In 2012, rapper 2 Chainz wanted to sample from Tom Lehrer's 1953 song "The Old Dope Peddler".
When Lehrer wrote back granting permission, he ended the letter "My regards go out to Mr. Chainz. And may I call him 2?"
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Word of the day: TOSIE (Scots) - warm, snug and comfortable
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Word of the day: ABULIA - the pathological inability to make decisions.
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‘Presbyterians’ is an anagram of ‘Britney Spears’.
Image: Glenn Francis, CC BY-SA 4.0
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The Australian state of Victoria has two different mountains called Mount Buggery.
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Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself. ELBERT HUBBARD 1856-1915
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Roughly once a year, in the Montenegrin village of Dinoša, water gushes naturally from the trunk of a mulberry tree. (Image: Argus News CC BY-SA 4.0)
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One of the nicknames given to the yellow-rumped warbler is ‘butterbutt’.
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I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.
WILHELM VON HUMBOLDT
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"In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is." JAN VAN DE SNEPSCHEUT
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Word of the day: CONCILIABULE - a secret meeting of those hatching a plot
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Word of the day: TINTIDDLE - a witty retort, thought of too late; the English equivalent for l'esprit de l'escalier
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Word of the day: ROCAMBOLESQUE - too bizarre to be believable
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Word of the day: CHERUBIMICAL (16th century) - describes a happy-drunk, the person who after four drinks is telling their friends how much they love them
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Dogs can tell when you're intentionally not giving them treats.
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Mice find being near bananas stressful.
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In 2021 an arrest warrant was issued for a woman in Oklahoma after it was discovered she hadn’t returned a copy of Sabrina the Teenage Witch on VHS to a video rental store in 1999 when it was due.
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There’s an art installation on the Moon. It’s called Fallen Astronaut by Paul Van Hoeydonck. The plaque names the men of the US and Soviet space programs that have lost their lives on space missions. (Image: NASA)
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To protect itself from parasites while it sleeps, the parrotfish encases itself in a bag of mucus burped from its gills. (Image: RobertoCostaPinto, CC-SA-4.0)
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According to Merriam-Webster, the word ‘colleague’ is most commonly used with such words as ‘fellow’, ‘esteemed’, and ‘distinguished’. The word ‘coworker’ is often used with such words as ‘difficult’, ‘bossy’, and ‘annoying’.
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Word of the day: MOLROWING - the practice of socializing with a disreputable woman
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Phrase of the Day: PRODUCTIVITY THEATRE — when your colleague behaves in a way that seems to suggest they work very hard while in fact this might not be the case.
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"We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special." STEPHEN HAWKING
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