Earth's warmest year was 1998 Morecambe and Wise nearly split up, before they had even got on television. Sailors in Tudor times had man bags. Some spiders are vegetarian. Each person has 1.5kg of probiotic bacteria in their digestive system,...

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Male life expectancy in the UK goes up by about three months every year. Fidel Castro stopped smoking cigars in 1985. In the early days of barcodes there was a plan for round ones. In the UK, 26 million addresses...

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In Monday's Guardian, Charlie Brooker (as is his way) had a pop at 'stuff': "There's too much stuff. We live in a stuff-a-lanche. It's time for a cultural diet". As he says at one point... "Every day we humans...

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My son's school has done one of those 'snapshot' studies that can be of vague cultural interest: a breakdown of first names amongst the 1300 or so pupils (remembering that it's an all boys (state) grammar school in the South...

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How great is this: give people something engaging to do and they’ll change their behaviour accordingly... (Thanks to Charles for the spot)

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