Walt Disney originally planned to name his famous cartoon mouse "Mortimer" not Mickey! It was his wife who persuaded him to name the mouse Mickey, although...

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Wow! The video on Youtube is astounding and looks like some elaborate fake. This phenomenon has been documented for hundreds of years, but in all...

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The Thatcher effect, named after the notorious former premiere, whose photograph was first used to demonstrate the effect, refers to the odd way the human...

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This sounds like it's a hoax, but, incredibly, c'est vrai! In Revolutionary France,  the French countryside used to shut down for half the year. When the...

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Our personal favourite is the Stone House in Guimarães, Portugal. Some of these buildings are just stunning. enjoy, courtesy of...

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This video is a great example of an utterly incredible ability of the Mimic Octopus. The species was not discovered until 1998 as divers mistook...

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Moronic Acid? Vomicine? Commic Acid? Are these for real? Godnose! This post might need an "Over 18s Only" rating since some of the (real) chemical names...

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There are about 6.5 billion humans on the planet, but we are by far outnumbered by insects. There are at least a million insects for...

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Brain studies indicate that thinking uses more energy. Although the brain represents only 2% of the body weight, it receives 15% of the cardiac output,...

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American pilot Chuck Yeager first broke the sound barrier on 14th October, 1947. Yeager flew the Bell X-1 rocket plane, nicknamed Glamorous Glennis, over...

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Winston Churchill was a great animal lover. As he once said: "Dogs look up to us, cats look down on us, but pigs look on...

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NO! Not THAT kind of Imperial Money! We're talking about the "old money", the pre-Decimal coinage in use in Great Britain prior to 1970. These coins,...

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Children have 20 milk teeth. These are eventually replaced by 32 adult teeth. [These in turn will often be replaced by first of all a few...

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Try looking at Google Maps, coordinates 50.010083,-110.113006. This is an entirely natural phenomenon. Or is it?..... Is there, after all, intelligent life on planet Earth? Source:...

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Here is a puzzle that was set by the famous mathematician, Wittgenstein. See if you can solve it before reading the answer! Assume the Earth is...

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The world's (human) population at the time of Christ was about 200 million. Now it is nearing 7 billion! Projections for future population show it is...

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The term "dog days" or the "dog days of summer" refers to the period of the year that is generally the hottest, sultriest and...

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Now this one is hard to believe! On Monday 8th Sept, 2008, automated programs were allowed to wipe more than $1 billion from a company's...

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By 2010 the average household will be using 1.1 terabytes  of bandwidth a month (that's roughly equal to 1,000 copies of the Encyclopedia Britannica).  20...

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There is only one number in English that has the same number of letters as it's value, that being the fantatsic...

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On 30th June, 1908, in the early morning, something exploded over the Tunguska region of Siberia. Witnesses many miles away reported a blinding light and...

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Find other "geo facts", inlcuding the origins of quirky placenames at the Ordnance Survey website's Did you Know section. For example... the village, Lover - a...

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It is thought that dogs noses are around a million times more sensitive to certain smells than human noses. Reasons are several. First of all,...

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Swedish parents Elisabeth Hallin and Lasse Diding had planned never to name their baby boy, born in 1991, as a protest against the naming law...

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