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Because of its use in holy communion, the Vatican has one of the highest per capita consumption of wine of any country.
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It is possible to be literally allergic to the cold.
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People have been making cheesecake in Greece for at least 4000 years.
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A long term study of nearly half a million people found that those who eat spicy food 6 or 7 days a week live longer than those that don’t.
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Dolphins have no vocal cords. The voice of Flipper was actually a modified kookaburra’s call.
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During the Second World War, British officer John ‘Mad Jack’ Churchill took a sword, a longbow and bagpipes into battle.
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Richard Norris Williams was advised to have his legs amputated after he survived the sinking of the Titanic, but he instead walked it off and won the Men’s Doubles Championships at Wimbledon in 1920.
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There are about 20 quadrillion ants, or 2.5 million ants for every person on Earth.
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A South Korean university has a toilet that uses faeces to generate electricity.
In order to incentivise its use, users are paid in virtual currency every time they use it.
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According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word ‘penguin’ probably comes from the Welsh phrase ‘pen gwyn’, which means ‘white head’.
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The New Jersey volunteer campaign to rescue thousands of stranded horseshoe crabs by flipping them the right way up is called 'ReTURN the Favor’.
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The president of the Royal Horticultural Society is Mr. Keith Weed.
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In Ancient Greece, there was at least one man named Shitty, one man named Milk-Scum, and one man named Named.
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Merlin the wizard was inspired by legendary Welsh bard, Myrddin, but his name was changed to make it less like the French word for shit, ‘merde’.
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A 2016 study debunking the ‘5 second rule’ found it’s safer to eat foods dropped on the carpet than on tile, metallic, or wooden surfaces.
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As well as centaurs, medieval literature also featured half-human, half-donkey onocentaurs, or ass centaurs.
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The heat in pepper comes from piperine, a compound that breaks down in contact with light (which is why you should store pepper in the cupboard.
Image: smial (FAL or GFDL 1.2)
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Word of the day: BONAILIE (19th century Scots) - a parting drink taken with a friend to wish them a good journey
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2899 Americans went to the A&E in 2020 for pizza-related injuries.
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Recorded Australian slang terms for ‘egg’ include ‘bum nut’, ‘butt nugget’, and ‘fart cartridge’.
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Word of the day: BARAGOUINER (French) - to speak a language extremely badly
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Word of the Day: MULLIGRUBS — low spirits, bad temper.
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What's the favourite tool of a lesbian builder? 🔨
Sandi has the answer. 🤣
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For every degree of global heating, there is a 12% increase in lightning strikes.
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Lough Hyne in Ireland is gloomy enough that deep sea sponges which normally only survive at the bottom of the ocean have been living successfully there as shallow as 5 metres down for over 20 years.
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A Quite Interesting Twitter feed from the team behind the BBC TV show QI.
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