We forget why we have entered a room because passing through doors creates an ‘event boundary’ causing the brain to file away what we were just thinking about.
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Lurch, a Watusi bull, had the largest horns in the world.
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'⸮' is a punctuation mark that was first proposed in the 1580s to denote sarcasm or irony.
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Your wounds heal faster if you lick them, you instinctively do this for that reason. Tears help, too.
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The North Atlantic gets 2.5 centimetres (1in) wider every year.
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It has been calculated that every 2 minutes, we take more pictures than all of humanity in the 19th century.
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2% of Europeans lack the genes for smelly armpits.
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