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Your cat can tell if you are upset. It simply does not change its behavior.
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"Computers in the future may have only 1000 vacuum tubes and perhaps weigh only 1.5 tons."
Popular Mechanics, 1949
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The Lapland town of Salla, the coldest in Finland, put in a request to host the Summer Olympics in 2032 to raise awareness of climate change.
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According to new research, less than 1% of Internet communities start 74% of conflicts.
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During the period from 2019 to November 2021, the usage of English swearwords increased by 41% on Facebook and 27% on Twitter.
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BEDTIME PROCRASTINATION is the psychological phenomenon when a person stays up too late in order to have feel like they have some time to themselves.
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In gay slang, a "friend of Dorothy" is a gay man.
During the 1980s, the US military conducted a massive investigation to find out who Dorothy was.
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There is a missing link in the ancestry of the European bison, linking the steppe bison to cows.
Researchers call this hypothetical species the "Higgs bison".
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In 1959, a Harvard researcher tried to teach three octopuses — Albert, Bertram and Charles — to pull a lever to get food. Albert and Bertram were cooperative, but Charles constantly squirted the researcher with water and prematurely terminated the study by breaking the lever.
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In a study of 15-year olds, the tendency to claim to know something when they don’t was most common in males from rich families.
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"When a man loves cats, I am his friend and comrade, without further introduction." MARK TWAIN
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Word of the Day: NANOLEARNING — learning through consuming small chunks of information on the internet, for instance, reading a 178-character tweet about the word ‘nanolearning’.
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When Prince officially changed his name to an unpronounceable symbol in 1992, Warner Brothers had to send floppy disks containing a new font to the press so that they could type the artist’s name. (Image: @anildash)
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Word of the Day: PODSNAPPERY - an absolute refusal to accept unpleasant truths.
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"I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then... you're doing things you've never done before and more importantly, you're Doing Something." NEIL GAIMAN
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Word of the Day: SPREZZATURA (Italian) - the art of carefully cultivated nonchalance to hide the effort you’re actually making
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Psychopaths tend not to procrastinate.
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Female octopuses throw things at males that harass them.
(Image: Morten Brekkevold; CC BY-NC-SA.)
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Some female hummingbirds masquerade as males to avoid harassment.
(Image: Kathy & sam; CC BY.)
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"Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual." TERRY PRATCHETT
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Cats are just as loyal to their owners as dogs are.
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The Honda Jazz was nearly called the Honda Fitta until the company realised it was a rude Swedish word for ‘vagina’ and the tagline ‘small on the outside, big on the inside’ wasn’t going to fly.
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Over 5,000 years ago, someone spat out their chewing gum. Then this happened. 🤯 #QI
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American baseball player Rube Waddell (1876-1914) was so fond of puppies fans of the opposing team would bring their dogs to games and hold them up. Waddell would run over to play with them instead of focusing on the game.
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In 1924, an elaborate tunnel was accidentally found under a street in Washington, D.C. Despite theories that it was a lair of bootleggers or ‘Teuton war spies’, the tunnel was dug by the Smithsonian entomologist Harrison G. Dyar, who just liked to dig tunnels in his spare time.
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A Quite Interesting Twitter feed from the team behind the BBC TV show QI.
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