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That’s why me and my BFF have the exact dumb ideas at the exact dumb times.

The oldest material found on Earth is stardust trapped inside a meteorite discovered in Australia that is older than the Solar System.

This peanut butter is not having a good day https://t.co/1kwbajOcZS

In 2003, archaeologists in Venezuela discovered fossilised remains of a guinea pig the size of a cow. https://t.co/lS9p8WhRgs

The first London phone book published in 1880 contained no numbers, only 248 names and addresses. To get connected, you rang the operator and asked for the person by name.

Alternative early suggestions for the term vegan were ‘vitan’, ‘dairyban’, ‘sanivore’ and ‘beaumangeur’.

The average human body has enough carbon in it to make a 72,000 carat diamond, 680 times the weight of the Koh-i-Noor. Image (a replica): aiva CC BY 2.0 https://t.co/U9q39J1Kke

I must be walking backwards these days then.

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The North American wood frog can freeze and thaw itself repeatedly over winter when temperatures get too cold. If you drop one while it’s frozen, it will make a “clinking” sound. (Photo credit: DDauri) https://t.co/OusYXkGmkD

In 1938, the US telecom company AT&T commissioned a new typeface – Bell Gothic – for its telephone directories which was designed to be legible when reproduced in tiny sizes on poor quality paper. (Image: GearedBull CC BY-SA 2.5) https://t.co/fHkqeMAN8n

In his 'Advice to Young Men' (1829) William Cobbett’s list of undesirable qualities in a wife included smiling at rude jokes, eating cheese slowly, sighing while sewing, a lazy under-jaw, and romping (h/t @EJBrand)

As to the power which money gives, it is that of brute force, it is the power of the bludgeon and the bayonet, and of the bribed press, tongue and pen. WILLIAM COBBETT

Word of the Day: HUFFLE, v. according to Francis Grose’s ‘A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue' (1785) ‘a piece of bestiality too filthy for explanation’.

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