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According to Guardian readers, the three words which best summed up 2020 were “shit”, “fucked” and “exhausting”.

In Finland, you can buy 3241-pack of beer in store.

Male bees ejaculate with such force that it is audible to human ears.

All penicillin made in the world descends from a melon bought in Peoria, Illinois in WWII. After scraping the mould off it, the scientists sat down and ate the rest.

The earliest known use of the word ‘gamer’ to refer to somebody who plays games comes from around 1425.

A woman named Violet Jessop survived the sinking of the Titanic, the Britannic, and was aboard the third sister ship the Olympic when it collided with another boat and nearly sank in 1911.

One in five deaths in 2018 were from air pollution caused by the burning of fossil fuels.

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In the history of the US automobile industry, only two car companies haven’t gone bankrupt – Ford and Tesla.

Word of the Day: VENTRIPOTENT - having a large belly.

In promo pictures, Apple products are almost always set at 9:41am. Apple aim to do their product ‘reveal’ around 40 minutes into their presentations, and want the time on the picture to mirror the audience’s watches as closely as possible.

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Harvard acceptance rate: 5.2%⠀ Walmart acceptance rate: 2.6%