Quite Interesting

The words ‘cyborg’ and ‘governor’ come from the same etymological root.

A popular zero-stress hobby among modern young people in China is raising pet bricks.  You take a brick home, spray it with water, and watch moss grow on it.

A San Francisco start-up has offered people $20 an hour to walk its robot dogs.

Insults hurled by Scottish poets at each other in the 15th and 16th centuries during flytings (verbal duels), included ‘ignorant elf’, ‘wanfucked foundling’, ‘shit but wit’ and ‘irregular owl’.

Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poem ‘Ozymandias’ was his submission to a sonnet-writing contest against his friend Horace Smith. Smith wrote a poem called ‘On a Stupendous Leg of Granite, Discovered Standing by Itself in the Deserts of Egypt, with the Inscription Inserted Below’.