Nine Things I Picked Up From Reading
Ethan Cassidy
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“Hunger is the best sauce.” From Cervantes’ Don Quixote.
You could do a whole book of quotes from Don Quixote but I suppose then
it would be Don Quixote.
Canberra is further east than Cairns. Counter-intuitive because one is inland and one coastal.
The word ‘bible’ never appears in Shakespeare’s writings.
The digit ‘1’ is more likely than any other digit to occur in a random selection of numbers, in fact by 30%. This is called Benford’s law and has successfully been used in a fraud trial.
“The imagination of the novelist is powerless against what he knows he is going to read in tomorrow’s morning newspaper” – Philip Roth.
A snail travels at 55 metres per hour.
“More than kisses, letters mingle souls” – John Donne.
A mouse eats a quarter of its own weight in food every day, mainly to keep it warm. This is why there are no small animals in the arctic or antarctic and no reptiles or amphibians.
Why are images in a mirror left-right reversed but not upside down. That is, on a horizontal but not vertical plane?
Date Published
April 9, 2026
By About Time
Origami is the Japanese art of paper folding. It allows you to turn a flat piece of paper into nearly anything you can think of, like an animal, flower or a hat.
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By The Research Unit for Indigenous Language at the University of Melbourne
If you drive from Melbourne to Sydney, you will travel through 10 different First Nations language groups. And there’s the same number between Melbourne and Adelaide.
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By Jeff
“There is no happiness on earth equal to that of liberty regained” – more wisdom from Don Quixote
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By Shae Wiedermann
Astrology and the interpretation of the stars and planets have been around for millennia. First originating in ancient Mesopotamia, astrology began by using the stars to decipher messages from the gods.
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