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Word Of The Day: SPLOOT — the pose of a dog or cat when it lies on its stomach with hind legs stretched out behind the body. [📷: Rain Rabbit.]
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How staples helped the Russians catch American spies. 🕵️ #QI
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In 1949, Munich Zoo embarked on a rigorous ‘de-nazification’ programme for a parrot who’d started screaming ‘Heil Hitler’ at guests.
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Word of the day: NOTGEIL (German) - so horny it's an emergency
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One horse produces 15 horsepower.
A human produces one horsepower.
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Many happy returns to the wonderful @stephenfry on his birthday, from all of us at QI!
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At the end of 2020, the Guardian held a poll in which they asked readers to sum up the year in a single word.
The most common answer was "shit", followed by "fucked".
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Over 5,000 years ago, someone spat out their chewing gum. Then this happened. 🤯 #QI
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Mikhail Gorbachev was a big fan of ‘Twin Peaks’ and asked George H.W. Bush to find out for him who killed Laura Palmer. David Lynch was contacted by the producers on behalf of the president but didn’t tell them the answer.
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‘Is there any mice in your arse?’ was a 19th-century Scottish way of replying to someone who is referring to themselves as ‘we’.
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Farewell to Barry Cryer, a comedy legend and a much loved member of the QI family. Our thoughts are with Barry's friends and family.
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Spam email got its name from a Monty Python sketch in which shouting ’SPAM!’ drowns out all other conversation.
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The small village of Villar de Corneja, Spain celebrates the New Year at noon instead of midnight, as many of the residents are elderly and want to go to bed early.
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The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has specifically ruled that Jeff Bezos is not an astronaut.
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Cats are just as loyal to their owners as dogs are.
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Movies contain a disclaimer that "any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events, is purely coincidental" because in 1933, Rasputin's murderer sued MGM for libel in inaccurately depicting the events that lead to Rasputin's death.
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Word of the day: MASKENTROTTEL (German) - someone who wears a face mask below their nose, literally ‘mask idiot’.
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Your cat can tell if you are upset. It simply does not change its behavior.
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A word that can be spelled with only musical notes — A, B, C, D, E, F, G — is called a ‘piano word’. The longest one in English is ‘cabbage-faced’.
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The Swedish word for bat is ‘fladdermus’, literally ‘flappy mouse’.
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At the 1936 Summer Olympics, Japanese pole vaulters Sueo Oe and Shuhei Nishida tied.
Rather than accepting a tie break, the two cut their medals in half and spliced them together to make a "friendship medal".
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The Lapland town of Salla, the coldest in Finland, put in a request to host the Summer Olympics in 2032 to raise awareness of climate change.
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In 1959, a Harvard researcher tried to teach three octopuses — Albert, Bertram and Charles — to pull a lever to get food. Albert and Bertram were cooperative, but Charles constantly squirted the researcher with water and prematurely terminated the study by breaking the lever.
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"It doesn't stop being magic just because you know how it works." TERRY PRATCHETT
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