In traditional champagne production, a remueur is someone who, every now and then, slightly turns the bottle to aid fermentation.
Research using rabbits has led to 26 Nobel Prizes for Physiology or Medicine.
The Japanese for ‘handbag’ is handubagu.
Modern homing pigeons find it convenient to, every now and then, follow motorways and ring roads and turn left and right at junctions.
Women make 25% of the films in Iran, compared to, 4% in the United States.
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Lake Baikal in Russia is a thousand times older than any other lake on Earth.
The Hundred Years War lasted for 116 years.
The original 3x3x3 Rubik’s Cube has 43252003274489856000 different states; that is to say, over 43 quintillion.
Humans have the same number of hair follicles as chimpanzees.
Rehoboam, Methuselah, Salmanazar, Balthazar, Nebuchadnezzar, Melchior, Solomon, Goliath and Melchizedek are all sizes of champagne bottle.
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“The four most overrated things in the world are lobsters, champagne, anal sex and picnics.”
– Christopher Hitchens
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