Proxima Centauri is 4.3 light years way: too far to travel. Why don't we just use Mercury (which has an 88 day year) as a staging ground, and launch from there?

Mercury’s year is only 88 days, so if we launch a rocket from there, we only have to travel for…

TIL that Liechtenstein was the last European country to give women the vote. This followed a referendum in 1984 (in which only men were allowed to vote): 51.3% voted in favour of the change.

Tonight a stand-up comedian asked my publicity-shy partner which of the men she was sitting with was her partner, and she said "Both." I am so proud.

… The second really did just walk into it when he asked Ruth “So which of these two men are you…

1996 (!) website exhibiting postcards, catalogues, advertisements etc. showing different kinds of transport throughout the ages