576
@qikipedia
Word of the Day: VILLAINSPLAINING (neologism) — endless monologuing by a movie baddie about the specifics of their evil scheme.
577
@qikipedia
‘There are moments, Jeeves, when one asks oneself, “Do trousers matter?”’
‘The mood will pass, sir.’
P. G. WODEHOUSE
578
@qikipedia
"What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?" URSULA K. LEGUIN
579
@qikipedia
The Curie family is the most Nobel awarded family in history.
Pierre and Marie Curie won a chemistry Nobel Prize.
Of their two children, Irène and Ève, Irène shared a chemistry Nobel with her husband. Ève's husband won a Nobel Peace Prize.
Ève merely won a National Book Award.
580
@qikipedia
Men with larger noses also have larger penises.
581
@qikipedia
Word of the Day: PINGLE (Scots) - to work hard in difficult circumstances and not make much progress
582
@qikipedia
See how wealthy America’s richest people really are: mkorostoff.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/
583
@qikipedia
Tchaikovsky was able to quit his day job with the support of a wealthy patron.
Her only condition for her support was that they never meet in person.
584
@qikipedia
Rather than placing the currency symbol before the amount (e.g. $50.00) or after the amount (e.g. 50.00€), the Cape Verdean escudo puts the symbol as the decimal separator - as 50$00.
585
@qikipedia
In 1896 newspapers reported that the Greek Orthodox Bishop of Lesbos, having been pronounced dead, lay in state for two days before sitting up and demanding to know what was going on.
586
@qikipedia
Cats cannot make long-term plans.
(Image: Stefan Tell; CC BY.)
587
@qikipedia
A newly discovered species of dinosaur found on the Isle of Wight has been given a name which translates as 'horned crocodile-faced hell heron'.
588
@qikipedia
In 1960, the RAF parachuted cats into Borneo to deal with a rat army.
589
@qikipedia
House cats definitely learn the names of other cats they live with and possibly the names of humans they live with. (Study: go.nature.com/39xzHid.)
590
@qikipedia
Tutankhamun's tomb contained a collection of boomerangs.
591
@qikipedia
Dogs can sniff out COVID19, but aren’t very good at it if they’re hungry or after eating, when they need a nap.
592
@qikipedia
According to a legend, the winner of the 1906 Tour de France René Pottier was ahead of his competitors by more than an hour during one stage. He stopped at a roadside cafe, drank an entire bottle of wine, waited for others to catch up, chased them down, and still won the stage.
593
@qikipedia
The average person is keeping 13 secrets right now.
594
@qikipedia
Stressed men prefer big butts.
595
@qikipedia
In Sweden, the @ symbol is sometimes called a 'kanelbulle' - a cinnamon roll.
(Image: Marco Verch Professional Photographer; CC BY.)
596
@qikipedia
Plastic bottles can now be recycled to produce vanilla flavouring for food using a genetically engineered strain of E. coli bacteria.
(Image: Feralbt)
597
@qikipedia
‘Lord’ comes from a combination of Old English words for ‘loaf’ and ‘ward’, so, etymologically speaking, a lord is someone who guards bread. ‘Lady’ comes from a combination of Old English words for ‘loaf’ and ‘kneader’, so a lady is someone who kneads bread. (h/t @yvanspijk)
598
@qikipedia
When Bill Shakespeare, the first man to receive the Pfizer vaccine, died in 2021, one Argentinian news channel got confused and announced the death of ‘one of the most important writers in the English language.’
599
@qikipedia
Something killed off 90% of all sharks 19 million years ago. No one knows what.
(Image: Richard Ling; CC BY-NC-ND.)
600
@qikipedia
"If you speak when angry, you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret." GROUCHO MARX
@qikipedia
A Quite Interesting Twitter feed from the team behind the BBC TV show QI.
linktr.ee/TheQIElves