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{"slip": { "id": 120, "advice": "A nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse."}}

{"slip": { "id": 162, "advice": "Stop using the term \"busy\" as an excuse."}}

{"slip": { "id": 3, "advice": "Don't eat non-snow-coloured snow."}}

{"slip": { "id": 169, "advice": "Do something selfless."}}

{"fact":"The leopard is the most widespread of all big cats.","length":51}

{"slip": { "id": 194, "advice": "Don't always rely on your comforts."}}

{"fact":"The most expensive cat was an Asian Leopard cat (ALC)-Domestic Shorthair (DSH) hybrid named Zeus. Zeus, who is 90% ALC and 10% DSH, has an asking price of \u00a3100,000 ($154,000).","length":175}

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Yüksel Koptagel is a Turkish composer and pianist. She was born in Istanbul, Turkey, granddaughter of General Osman Nuri Koptagel, a commander in the Turkish War of Independence. Her maternal great grandfather Abdul Karim Khan Tareen, a physician, had migrated from Multan, British India and had settled in Istanbul, adopting the name Abdul Karim Bey. Her father Baha Koptagel was a dentist and her mother Hikmet Koptagel was a teacher.

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{"fact":"A cat\u2019s nose pad is ridged with a unique pattern, just like the fingerprint of a human.","length":87}

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The Barnsley Pals were two 'Pals battalions' formed as part of 'Kitchener's Army' during World War I. Raised by local initiative in the town of Barnsley in the West Riding of Yorkshire and recruited largely from coalminers, they became the 13th and 14th (Service) Battalions of the local York and Lancaster Regiment. After almost two years of training, the battalions suffered heavy casualties in a disastrous attack on the village of Serre on the first day of the Battle of the Somme. They continued to serve on the Western Front, including the Battle of Arras (1917). Combined into a single battalion in early in 1918, the Barnsley Pals were reduced to a remnant during the German spring offensive, but the battalion was rebuilt to participate in the final victorious Hundred Days Offensive.

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