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The cure for methanol is in the name
Something that popped up in my head because of the news recently about those poor tourists in Laos who died from methanol poisoning.
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Short facts that have piqued my interest recently.
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Jenny was a daughter of mine
This one is pretty short.
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The man whose gold was gone
The "James Bond of Philanthropy".
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Eve ex Adam
Was Eve really made from a rib of Adam?
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Hiding sins
This hall is closed to the public to this day because of the three frescoes that portray this unsavoury historical event.
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Judas goats
What does the biblical figure who betrayed Jesus have to do with goats in the Galápagos?
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Pounding the hashtag
We all know the hashtag nowadays as the lingua franca of labelling content. Where did it come from though?
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A real feeling about eels
What mystery puzzled both Aristotle and Freud? What did the German biologist, Max Schultze, mean on his deathbed by the last unsettled question; "the eel question?"
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More than you ever wanted to know about turkey
A rabbit hole, which journeys across ancient civilisations, trade, the dark ages and the new world.
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The case of the colour changing dog poo
Cast your mind back to those rocky, calcified remains that your parents told you not to touch when you were an inquisitive child.
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The prehistory of Magnolias
The earliest flowering plant likely looked like a magnolia.
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Where does a cappuccino get its colour from?
The tasty beverage "cappuccino" doesn't get its name from a description of the method by which the coffee is made.