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We call our day 24 hours, but it is really 23 hours 56 minutes 5 seconds.
— The Nelson Evening Mail, September 28 1906
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‘Facetious’ is the shortest word in the English language including all the vowels in alphabetical order.
The English theatre loves the joker.
Samuel Beckett notched up 35 runs in first-class cricket.
UK funeral directors are fuming because people found something out.
The Republic lives with its face uncovered.
Men working in the fields sing pentatonic tunes.
American biscuits are in fact scones.
A boatman has taken 99 mackerel in three hours by whiffling.
2.8 million viewers tuned in to find out who shot JR Ewing.
Torture in Uzbekistan is institutionalised, systematic and rampant.
Ross Brown is now active.
Californium 252 costs $30,000,000 a gram.
Storm’s a-coming.
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