10 things we learned this Spring

From wakeful sloths to Old Norse hangovers.

1. Sloths only sleep 8-9 hours a day.
2. Voice assistants like Apple's Siri and Amazon's Alexa can't understand Icelandic.
3. US airlines bumped 40,000 passengers against their will off flights last year.
4. Diners are more likely to order items listed inside boxes on menus.
5. Half of young adults in the UK do not feel European.
6. A Canadian town has special prisons that hold polar bears as prisoners.
7. In early drafts of Star Wars, Yoda was called Buffy
8. JRR Tolkein and CS Lewis went to see Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs together and they didn’t like it.
9. Britons drink 60 billion cups of tea every year
10. The medical term for a hangover is ‘veisalgia’ from ‘kveis’ the Old Norse term for ‘uneasiness after debauchery’.

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