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