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In 2016 US astronaut Scott Kelly spent his birthday dressed as a gorilla chasing colleagues around the International Space Station. https://t.co/4xrky35Zil

It was seasoned with extra spices, especially salt, since taste buds become a little dulled in space.

Stick looks like a frog posing like one of your French girls https://t.co/WCl9qC4icU

Cock ale was a popular drink in the 17th and 18th centuries, combining the flavours of beer and chicken soup. The recipe called for “ten gallons of ale and a large cock, the older the better”.

The top UK Google search about deliveries in 2020 was “afternoon tea delivery”, closely followed by “wine delivery” and “compost delivery”.

In 1837 a young Karl Marx’s father signed off a letter to his son with “P.S. It would not be a bad thing, dear Karl, if you would write more legibly.”

The Moon moves nearly 4cm further away from Earth each year, about the same speed our fingernails grow.

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“And by the way, they’re real and they’re spectacular.”

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Word of the Day: GOLLUMPUS (18th century slang) - a large, loutish or clumsy person.

The Oxford English Dictionary's earliest definition of ‘terrorism’ defined it as ‘Government by intimidation as directed and carried out by the party in power in France during the Revolution of 1789–94’.

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The angled nose at the front of a Concorde is called a ‘droop snoot’. (📷 Aero Icarus CC BY-SA 2.0) https://t.co/RybSj3ZZmz

Long beards became unfashionable in the 1900s as concerns about hygiene rose. In a 1916 essay, The Menace of Whiskers, Edwin F Bowers wrote: “There is no way of computing the number of bacteria and noxious germs that may lurk in the Amazonian jungles of a well-whiskered face.” https://t.co/xGIEkPMsuR