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Dogs enjoy listening to audiobooks.

A Victorian euphemism for conceiving a child out of wedlock was ‘to sit in the garden with the gate unlocked’.

Ruth Wakefield, the inventor of the chocolate chip cookie, sold the idea to Nestle for $1 and a lifetime’s supply of chocolate.

More hours of World of Warcraft have been played than the total amount of time humans have existed.

Films deemed ‘culturally significant’ enough by the US National Library of Congress for archiving include Gertie the Dinosaur, The Bank Dick, Hot Dogs For Gaugin, Where Are My Children, A MOVIE, Pull My Daisy, Pass The Gravy, Duck Amuck, Porky In Wackyland, Princess Nicotine,

Since 1990, the UK’s GDP has increased 50% while its CO2 emissions have halved.

Jissbon Sanitary products is a Chinese company that sells 007-themed condoms. Jissbon is a Chinese transliteration of ‘James Bond’.

Word of the Day: BUMMER (Scottish slang, 19th century) - ‘a person who bums like a bee, that is, utters a deal of empty sound to no purpose’.

According to a traditional Korean folk tale, if you don’t carefully dispose of your nail clippings a mouse will eat them, turn into your evil doppelganger and replace you.

Riding horses doesn’t cause motion sickness in humans, but riding camels does.

The advertising posters for a 2009 Berlin production of Mel Brooks’s musical ‘The Producers’ replaced the Nazi swastika, banned in Germany, with a pretzel.

Up to 90% of streets in India have no proper names and addresses can include instructions such as: ‘behind Ganesh Temple’ or ‘near Minerva cinema’.

During World War Two, Coca Cola was exempt from sugar rationing if sold to the US army. They built bottling plants near US bases abroad. The factories’ management were given military ranks and nicknamed ‘Coca Cola Colonels’.

Scientists recently learned how to make paracetamol from plastic waste with the help of E. coli.

We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for, I don’t know. JOHN FOSTER HALL

People with sexual synesthesia see colours when they orgasm.

The 19th century actress Sarah Bernhardt wore hats decorated with taxidermied bats.

In a 2024 survey, nearly 40% of Brits still preferred to have a CD player in their car.

85% of Greenland sharks have small parasitic crustaceans living on both eyeballs.

Medieval monks annotated their manuscripts with comments like, ‘This lamp gives bad light’, ‘A curse on thee, O pen!’, and ‘This parchment is certainly hairy.’