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The Icelandic word for "echo" - BERGMÁL - literally translates as "rock language".
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Word of the day: EEDLE-DODDLE - someone who shows no initiative in a crisis.
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Anannatannassamitindriya is a Sanskrit word for the feeling that there must be a word for a feeling that you can’t name. Its literal translation is ‘I-will-come-to-know-what-is-unknown’.
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Signs about traffic accident statistics were added to many US roads in order to remind drivers to pay attention.
New research suggests drivers get distracted reading them and are more likely to get in a crash.
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Just like humans, octopuses have a specific arm they prefer to use.
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In 2019, climbers left an estimated 8,000 kg of poo at a single camp on Mount Everest.
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"The moral of 'The Three Bears,' for instance, is 'Never break into someone else's house." The moral of 'Snow White' is 'Never eat apples.' The moral of World War One is 'Never assassinate Archduke Ferdinand'." LEMONY SNICKET
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Beatrix Potter may have borrowed some her most famous characters' names from the gravestones in Brompton cemetery near where she grew up. Peter Rabbett, Mr McGregor, Jeremiah Fisher, Mr Nutkins, Mr Brock and Mr Tod are all buried there.
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Coelacanths, the ‘fossil fish' still found off the coast of Madagascar, existed over 300 million years earlier than Madagascar itself.
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Word of the Day: FIMBLE-FAMBLE — a weak excuse.
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The design of Barbie was inspired by a German doll Lilli, a sexualised secretary based on the character of a daily tabloid cartoon. The dolls were popular as bachelor party gifts and were sold in tobacco shops, bars, and adult-themed toy stores. [📷: dollyhaul.]
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"Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another." CARL SAGAN
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Word of the day: FORPLAINT - to be tired from complaining so much
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Soccer was originally ‘socca’ – a late 19th century Oxbridge slang term created by shortening the Association in ‘Association football’ to distinguish it from ‘rugger’ (rugby football).
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According to a 2000 poll, the Japanese believe their greatest invention of the 20th century was the instant noodle.
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The Sherlock Holmes Museum is located at 239 Baker Street, but it is allowed by the City of Westminster to use the 221B address.
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After drummer Pete Best was fired from the Beatles, he released an album called "Best of the Beatles".
Buyers were disappointed to find out it was not a Beatles compilation album.
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Even extroverts find socialising tiring.
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The knobbles on our kneecaps are as individual as our fingerprints or irises.
Image: Jörg Bittner Unna
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England gets more tornados per sq km than anywhere else on earth.
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During the Crimean War, the inventor of the saxophone Adolphe Sax had an idea for a cannon that would be able to demolish a whole city by firing a 10-metre-wide shot weighing 550 tons. The unrealised weapon was to be called Saxocannon.
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Defecation can stimulate the vagus nerve and produce a pleasurable sensation that is called ‘poo-phoria’.
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Penguins alter their accents to sound like their friends.
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There are two rhymes for orange in British English: Blorenge (a mountain in Wales) and sporange (a sac where spores are made).
However, the American pronunciation of orange has no rhyme.
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Before the introduction of postage stamps in the U.S., a letter was supposed to be paid for by the recipient. In the 1830s, one American harassed his enemy by sending him letters filled with nothing but blank pages.
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