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Anyone excited for Sun Day?

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During a group match during the 1982 World Cup, both teams - Austria and West Germany - would advance only if West Germany won. The teams made sure this happened.

The next day, the local newspaper reported on the match in the crime section.

Until recently, scientists thought the mites that live in your face could not poo.

In fact, they can and do.

Experts at Harvard have suggested that the United States should set up a national poo bank.

(Deposits would be used for fecal microbiome transplants.)

There is a cloud in Australia named Hector.

"Hector the Convector" forms every afternoon in the summer over the Tiwi Islands in the Northern Territory of Australia.

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No one will be watching the 10 o clock news tonight, right? 😐

Seahorses are monogamous, and travel with their life mate holding each other's tail. They do, however, still like to flirt.

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Baseball team The Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters introduced a hyphen to their name to prevent the impression that they fought ham.

A London tennis club attempted to train dogs to replace "ball boys" at Wimbledon.

The trial failed because the dogs did not want to return the tennis balls.

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After drummer Pete Best was fired from the Beatles, he released an album called "Best of the Beatles".

Buyers were disappointed to find out it was not a Beatles compilation album.

There are not one but two universities in America that have a Taco Bell professor of business.

Irish for ‘echo’ is ‘macalla’, which literally means ‘son of a cliff’.

Why Don't Pigeons Like Films?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXbRiWaPzGk

Luckily all pigeons Like our videos on YouTube when they see them.

Before the introduction of postage stamps in the U.S., a letter was supposed to be paid for by the recipient. In the 1830s, one American harassed his enemy by sending him letters filled with nothing but blank pages.

In 2015, it was announced that Mr. T would host a home-improvement TV show called ‘I Pity the Tool’.

After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the West German branch of Mills and Boon gave away more than 700,000 romance novels at border checkpoints.

Integrity! That's a valuable thing and I'm willing to pay for it. PETER COOK

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word ‘penguin’ probably comes from the Welsh phrase ‘pen gwyn’, which means ‘white head’.

Pigeons can be taught to recognise all 26 letters of the English alphabet and to distinguish between real words and gibberish.

Word of the Day: DRIP (Scottish Gaelic, rare) — a trap that you mean for someone else but that you yourself gets ensnared in.