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Recorded Australian slang terms for ‘egg’ include ‘bum nut’, ‘butt nugget’, and ‘fart cartridge’.
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There is a termite city underneath northeastern Brazil which is as large as Britain and some parts are thought to be nearly 4,000 years old.
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An emordnilap is a word that, if read backwards, spells another meaningful word. For instance: ‘deliver’ — ‘reviled’, ‘reward’ — ‘drawer’, and ‘palindrome’ — ‘emordnilap’.
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Never explain: your friends don’t require it, and your enemies won’t believe you, anyway. ELBERT HUBBARD
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One Polish equivalent to the phrase ‘in the middle of nowhere’ is ‘gdzie psy dupami szczekają’, literally ‘where dogs bark with their arses’.
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America’s last remaining washboard factory sells 40 percent of its products to bluegrass and folk percussionists.
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If humans last as long as the average mammalian species, and no mass extinctions or catastrophes occur, then 99.5% of humans who will ever exist are yet to be born.
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Word of the day: UNDERMEAL (15th century) - an extra mid-afternoon meal
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Never put off till tomorrow what you can do day after tomorrow just as well. MARK TWAIN
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About one person in twenty can't visualise images in their head.
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Last month, a girl in Rhode Island left cookies out for Santa, found them half-eaten, and sent a sample of the food to the authorities for a DNA test. They said they were able to find a partial match ‘to a 1947 case centered around 34th Street in New York City’.
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According to local legend, the mason of Freiburg’s cathedral was unhappy with his pay, and so he sculpted himself onto the building as this gargoyle, defecating in the direction of the city council. [📷: Márcio Cabral de Moura CC BY-NC-ND 2.0]
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The Honda Jazz was nearly called the Honda Fitta until the company realised it was a rude Swedish word for ‘vagina’ and the tagline ‘small on the outside, big on the inside’ wasn’t going to fly.
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Moles shrink their brains in winter to conserve energy.
(Image: Johnnie Walker; CC BY-NC-ND.)
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An expert is a person who has found out by his own painful experience all the mistakes that one can make. NIELS BOHR
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On average, being single costs £860 more a month than being partnered.
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People born with a surname towards the end of the alphabet tend to be more impatient.
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We are THRILLED to announce QI has been shortlisted in two categories at The National Comedy Awards 2023! 🏆
Outstanding Female Comedy Entertainment Performer:
Sandi Toksvig
Best Comedy Panel Show:
QI
If you could vote for us, we'd be so appreciative! thenationalcomedyawards.com
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‘Fight or flight’ isn’t the only reaction humans have when stressed; researchers have identified a ‘tend and befriend' response where individuals seek and give social support.
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Since the word ‘album’ comes from the Latin for ‘white’, the Beatles ‘White Album’ is a tautology.
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Merlin the wizard was inspired by legendary Welsh bard, Myrddin, but his name was changed to make it less like the French word for shit, ‘merde’.
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Men are more likely to want a sports car when they feel bad about the size of their penis.
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You can be RUTHFUL - full of compassion or pity - in addition to being RUTHLESS.
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In the USA, Orthodox Jews make 18% of altruistic kidney donations (where a living donor gives an organ to a recipient he or she doesn't know). They are just 0.2% of the population.
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Word of the day: CHERUBIMICAL (16th century) - describes a happy-drunk, the person who after four drinks is telling their friends how much they love them
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