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The Caribbean island of Aruba's entire archive, including their National Library and archaeology museum, has just been digitised. It’s the first time a whole country has been backed up.

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The Italian island, Alicudi, has 100 inhabitants and 600 feral goats. They're giving goats away to anyone who will take them.

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Tonight at 9pm on BBC Two we'll be looking at some unusual U words in our 'Ulex' episode with Sandi, Alan, Bridget Christie, Cariad Lloyd and Rosie Jones!

Available on iPlayer straight after.

Tonight at 9pm on BBC Two we'll be looking at some unusual U words in our 'Ulex' episode with Sandi, Alan, @BridgetChristie, @ladycariad and @josierones! Available on iPlayer straight after.
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Early names for the Tasmanian devil included ‘bear devil’, 'Beelzebub's pup’, and ‘Satanic meat lover’. [📷: Wayne McLean. CC-BY-SA-4.0]

Early names for the Tasmanian devil included ‘bear devil’, 'Beelzebub's pup’, and ‘Satanic meat lover’. [📷: Wayne McLean. CC-BY-SA-4.0]
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The first translation of Leo Tolstoy’s novel ‘War and Peace’ into Japanese was published in 1886 under the title ‘Weeping Flowers and Bitter Willow Trees — Traces of Bloody Battles in Northern Europe’.

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The Beatles’ song ‘I Am the Walrus’ is based on Lewis Carroll’s poem ‘The Walrus and the Carpenter’. Later, John Lennon ‘realised that the walrus was the bad guy in the story’ and he should have sung ‘I am the Carpenter’.

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Word of the Day: TESTERICAL (neologism) - driven by testes and/or testosterone; a proposed alternative to the word ‘hysterical’.

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