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As well as affianced couples, St Valentine is the patron saint of epilepsy, fainting, plague, beekeepers and greetings card manufacturers.
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Since hibernation is not sleep, animals emerge from hibernation sleep-deprived and tired.
Therefore, animals that hibernate come out of hibernation periodically in order to get some sleep.
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This year, the Minnesota Transportation Department again selected new names for eight snowploughs from the ideas provided by the public. The winning entries include No More Mr Ice Guy, Scoop Dogg and Ctrl Salt Delete.
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MUSHROOM MANAGEMENT is the management style where employees are "kept in the dark and fed bullshit".
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Word of the day: SESSELPUPSER (German) - literally "armchair-farter", someone who gives orders from the comfort of their office but doesn't do any of the work themselves
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The Spanish village of Trasmoz was officially cursed and excommunicated by the Pope in 1511 for witchcraft. Neither the curse nor the excommunication have ever been lifted.
Trasmoz now crowns the woman who has best served the community "witch of the year".
Image: Juanje 2712.
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After John Coltrane died in 1967, a small sect was founded in San Francisco called the Yardbird Temple which worshipped him as a god, and Charlie Parker as the equivalent to John the Baptist.
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Google can bring you back, you know, a hundred thousand answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one. NEIL GAIMAN
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People think that stories are shaped by people. In fact, it’s the other way around. TERRY PRATCHETT
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Human skin has no wetness receptors. You can only feel that something is wet by sensing a cold temperature, combined with a certain texture and pressure your brain has learned to associate with ‘wetness’.
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"Susan hated Literature. She'd much prefer to read a good book." TERRY PRATCHETT
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Mars sometimes hums, and scientists don’t know why.
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Lobsters communicate by peeing on each other out of their heads.
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Minnesota has added new snowplows to their fleet. Joining Plowy McPlowface are No Mr. Ice Guy, Edward Blizzardhands, Ctrl Salt Delete, among others.
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In Swaziland, witches on broomsticks are not legally permitted to fly above 150 meters.
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Yuor aibltiy to ueandrstnd tihs jmubled txet is comonmly cllaed ‘typoglycemia’.
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Mark Twain's definition of a classic was "something that everyone wants to have read but no one wants to read."
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Florence Nightingale owned over sixty cats in her lifetime including Big Pussie and Mrs Tit.
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There are more pet tigers in the USA than there are wild tigers in the world.
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The official @kfc Twitter account follows eleven people: six men named Herb and the five Spice Girls.
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People think about you more than you think they do - but they also like you more than you think they do.
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In a 2008 study, researchers at Bath Spa University asked volunteers to rank the intelligence of people with various accents.
A Yorkshire accent was rated highest. A Brummie accent was rated lower than staying silent.
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Paper planes are older than planes, so they were originally known as paper darts. (Image from 1882).
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WORD OF THE DAY: POKEMON an old Cornish word meaning 'clumsy', first recorded in the 19th century.
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In 1910, Lilian Bland flew Ireland’s first biplane and became the first woman in the world to design, build, and fly her own plane. She was cautious about the attempt and called the plane ‘Mayfly’, explaining: ‘It may fly, it may not’.
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