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Want ice cold wine that isn’t watered down? If you add ice cubes the wine becomes diluted as they melt; luckily, there is a trick that will cool your wine and keep it tasting just as great - it looks lovely, too! All you have to do is add frozen grapes to your glass. They immediately cool down the drink without diluting the liquid.

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A mother-of-three is running the equivalent of 76 marathons in a year to raise money for a children’s charity, BBC News has reported. Lindsey Thurlow, from Swindon in Wiltshire, has already raised more than £3,000 for Make-A-Wish UK, which creates life-changing wishes for seriously ill children. “On the bad days I think of those children and tell myself to get on with it,” she said. She hopes to complete the 1,986-mile (3,196km) challenge by April. Lindsey, a keen runner, decided to take on the challenge after hearing that the Make-A-Wish charity was in desperate need of money. “There are some amazing wishes - anything from getting a bucket to go to the seaside, to meeting their idol,” said Lindsey. She chose her target figure to mark 1986, which was the year the charity granted its first wish in the UK.

Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path, and leave a trail. Ralph Waldo Emerson

In 2004, on the island of Flores in Indonesia, a team of Australian and Indonesian researchers discovered the remains of a hobbit-sized human, one that stood no more than a metre tall.

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