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In the 1940s, a group of Oxford writers and academics would gather every week to listen to new chapters of J.R.R. Tolkien's ‘The Lord of the Rings’. English professor Hugo Dyson would sometimes interrupt these readings with, ‘Oh fuck, not another elf’.
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The first woman to cycle round the world learnt to ride a bike the day before she set off.
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What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you’re inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. CARL SAGAN
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On average, people with brown eyes have a harder time getting up in the morning than those with blue eyes.
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In the 1960s, the Worm Runner’s Digest magazine wrote that the productivity of any laboratory equals Number of Secretaries times Average Typing Speed divided by Number of Scientists. And noted that ‘when the number of scientists is zero, productivity becomes infinite’.