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In 2004, Swedish authorities deployed emergency services to provide a "condom ambulance".
If you needed a condom urgently, you could call them for an emergency condom delivery.
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"A passport, as I'm sure you know, is a document that one shows to government officials whenever one reaches a border between countries, so the officials can learn who you are, where you were born, and how you look when photographed unflatteringly." LEMONY SNICKET
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Scientists at the University of Copenhagen believe that they could resurrect an extinct species of rat.
They aren't planning to do so because "probably the world doesn’t need any more rats".
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"There are of course many problems connected with life, of which some of the most popular are 'Why are people born? Why do they die? Why do they want to spend so much of the intervening time wearing digital watches?'" DOUGLAS ADAMS
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The 19th century naturalist Alexander von Humboldt has over 300 species named after him, as well as places, asteroids and part of the Moon.
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Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman in the U.S. to earn the M.D. degree, was admitted to a medical school in 1847. The faculty allowed the all-male student body to vote on her admission, being sure they would reject her, but the students voted ‘yes’ as a joke.
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"If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring in a folding chair." SHIRLEY CHISHOLM, first Black woman elected to the US Congress
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Scientists discovered the pale giant oak aphid in Central Europe in 2012 but didn’t realise the UK had a population for eight years because ants were keeping them in secret farms.
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Mosquitos don't like EDM.
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Museum of Failure features such products as the Harley-Davidson cologne; the spray-on condom (‘simply insert penis into an apparatus to coat with melted latex. Then wait 3 minutes for latex to dry’); and a $200 handheld device that only supports Twitter.
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Over the last 70 years, the United States has lost at least three nuclear bombs.
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The average Briton will lose 756 socks in their lifetime.
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Irish for ‘echo’ is ‘macalla’, which literally means ‘son of a cliff’.
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A study of 7000 US adults has found that after the COVID-19 pandemic, people have become less extroverted and less agreeable.
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Before X-rays were invented and xylophones became widely known, alphabet books sometimes said X was for ‘xany’, an early form of ‘zany’ meaning an idle person.
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In 2006, The Ig Nobel Prize in Literature went to the Princeton psychologist Daniel Oppenheimer for his paper ‘Consequences of Erudite Vernacular Utilized Irrespective of Necessity: Problems with Using Long Words Needlessly’. @improbresearch
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Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise. BERTRAND RUSSELL
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In 1974, Oliver Postgate made a special episode of the Clangers called ‘Vote for Froglet’ as a satirical response to the political process which he thought ‘completely buggered by inter-party squabbling.’
Image: BennyOnTheLoose, CC BY-SA 4.0
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According to the 2021 Global Drug Survey, Irish people are the most likely to get drunk and then regret it.
(Chart by @_LutherAF_.)
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In 1899, G.E. Dudley patented an electrical anti-masturbation device for men that consisted of a tube connected to a bell that would ring if the penis, inserted in the tube, became erect.
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A Quite Interesting Twitter feed from the team behind the BBC TV show QI.
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