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Pub quiz

1. What is the name of Dua Lipa’s 2020 album?

2. Matt Goss, Luke Goss and Craig Logan made up which band?

3. In what year did The Beatles split up?

4. What is rapper P Diddy’s real name?

5. Complete this Spice Girls lyric: “If you wanna be my [BLANK], you gotta get with my friends”.

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Answers:

DID YOU KNOW?

Australia is wider than the moon! The moon is 3400km in diameter, Australia’s diameter from east to west is almost 4000km.

Flamingo friendships

‘Birds of a feather flock together’ but, within their flocks, flamingos form smaller cliques of like-minded individuals, a new study suggests. While previous research showed that flamingos formed friendship groups, the findings of this latest study, published in the journal Scientific Reports, indicate that these friendships are partly decided by individuals’ intrinsic traits. Researchers at the University of Exeter and the Wildfowl and Wetlands Caribbean flamingos and a separatelyflamingos at the WWT Slimbridge Wetland Centre in Gloucestershire between March and July 2014. Both groups were found to have individuals with varying behavioural traits, and they appeared to use these traits to choose which flamingos they would associate themselves with the most.

“For example, bolder birds had stronger, more consistent ties, with other bold birds, while submissive birds tended to spend their time with fellow submissive flamingos,” study co-author and animal behavioural scientist Dr Paul Rose, a research associate at WWT and lecturer at the University of Exeter, explained.

Well, knock me down with a feather!

Very Lost In The Post

A letter written in February 1916 has arrived at a flat in south London more than 100 years later, BBC News has reported. The envelope, which has a Bath postmark and a 1d (one old penny) stamp bearing the head of George V, eventually arrived at Finlay Glen’s flat on Hamlet Road, Crystal Palace. “We were obviously pretty surprised and mystified as to how it could have been sat around for more than 100 years,” said Finley, while Royal Mail said it remained ‘uncertain what happened in this instance’. The letter was sent two years before World War I rationing was introduced and King George V had been on the throne for five years.