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The word ‘bridal’ comes from ‘bride ale’, a traditional wedding feast typically involving ale drinking.
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"Perhaps if we saw what was ahead of us, and glimpsed the follies, and misfortunes that would befall us later on, we would all stay in our mother's wombs, and then there would be nobody in the world but a great number of very fat, very irritated women." LEMONY SNICKET
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To know when you know, and when you don’t know, and what it is you know and what it is you don’t know, you gotta be very careful not to confuse yourself. RICHARD FEYNMAN
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Word of the day: CLATTERFART - a talkative person.
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Word of the day: NANNICK (early 20th century English dialect) - to fool around when you really should be working
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Peter Mayhew, who played Chewbacca in the Star wars movies, spoke his lines in English, they were later dubbed into Wookie.
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American doctors have a phrase for a diagnosis that is usually the most obvious answer: ‘When you hear hoofbeats, think horses, not zebras.’
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Economists have shown the urban legend is true - when the economy is better, short skirts are more popular.
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Wembley Stadium has more toilets than any other sporting venue in the world, enough for a new toilet every day for 7 and a half years (if you wanted to try them all).
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Scientists have created a potato plant that glows when it is stressed.
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San Francisco allows residents to "adopt a drain" and name it.
Names include "Drains of Castamere", "Grate Expectations" and of course, "Drainy McDrainface".
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Learned behaviours passed on though culture may now be influencing human evolution faster than genetic mutations and natural selection.
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A CHEWBACCA DEFENSE is when a lawyer just tries to confuse the jury, instead of trying to convince them of anything.
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Bees are now legally considered a type of fish in California.
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‘Calenture’ is the heat-induced illusion suffered by sailors that the sea is a green field they can walk on. It comes via Spanish from the Latin calēre, meaning ‘to be warm.’
Image: European Space Agency
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"That seems to point up a significant difference between Europeans and Americans. A European says: 'I can't understand this, what's wrong with me?' An American says: 'I can't understand this, what's wrong with him?'" TERRY PRATCHETT
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There is a cheese-themed theme park in South Korea.
(Image: Republic of Korea; CC BY-SA.)
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According to the Venerable Bede, February was once called ‘the Month of Cakes’.
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Kanbari nyūdō is a Japanese spirit that lurks around toilets on New Year’s Eve and tries to lick you.
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Word of the day: DESIDERATE - to long for something you once had
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MELIORISM is the belief that the world can be made better through concerted human effort.
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It is illegal to mispronounce "Arkansas" while in Arkansas.
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Nobody hates tourists more than a fellow tourist. Running into a compatriot abroad is an acutely painful experience. It’s a bit like hearing your own voice. TOM JENKINS (CEO OF THE EUROPEAN TOURISM ASSOCIATION)
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There is a termite city underneath northeastern Brazil which is as large as Britain and some parts are thought to be nearly 4,000 years old.
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"I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals." WINSTON CHURCHILL
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