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In 1881, US humour magazine Puck published the world's first emoticons. pic.twitter.com/G4z9ZpFEuZ

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IV is the Roman numeral designation for 4 everywhere in the world except on clock faces.

 


Thats a weird one

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I like the theory that it was done for balance, the first four hours have only I, the second use V and the third X.

 

Sadly that doesn't work for the Shepherd Gate Clock at Greenwich which has a 24 hour face.

 

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Energizer has trademarked 'battery bunnies' in North America, so the Duracell Bunny is banned from the continent.

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The Diatomyidae rodent family was thought to have been extinct for 11 million years until one was found on a kebab in Laos.

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What the Earth and our moon look like from Saturn:

 

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Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia is, rather ironically, the official term for a person who is terrified of long words.

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I really cannot pronounce that word at all! Smiley LOL

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There is a fogbow?

 

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This rare phenomena, named a fog bow, was spotted by Sam Dobson during a recent expedition to the North Pole. pic.twitter.com/Y4JAPa24Tc

 

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A bear named Wojtek was adopted by Polish soldiers in WWII – it drank beer, smoked and ate cigarettes, could salute and carried ammunition.

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