701
@qikipedia
At various points throughout the year, the hottest part of the solar system is Didcot. There is a nuclear fusion reactor there that can reach temperatures higher than the sun.
702
@qikipedia
According to the a 2003 online survey of 9,000 people in the UK, the most important invention of the previous 40 years was the widget, a nitrogen ball used in beer cans. It outranked space exploration, contraceptive pills, and the Internet. [📷: slworking2.]
703
@qikipedia
"The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you." NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON
704
@qikipedia
A fart travels about eight inches per minute.
705
@qikipedia
CUNNINGHAM'S LAW: The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question, it's to post the wrong answer. STEVEN MCGEADY
706
@qikipedia
Transdeletion, or transposed deletion is a process whereby you shorten a word by a letter and form an anagram out of the remaining ones: ‘sure’ → ‘use’. A transdeletion pyramid is a chain of words where each one is a transdeleted version of the previous one.
707
@qikipedia
Word of the day: HINDERMATE - the opposite of a helpmate, a friend who only makes things more difficult
708
@qikipedia
"Coffee is a way of stealing time that should by rights belong to your older self." TERRY PRATCHETT
709
@qikipedia
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]
710
@qikipedia
Tortoiseshell cats are 99.6% female.
Image: Hammersfan
711
@qikipedia
It is against US federal law to correspond with a pirate.
712
@qikipedia
Cuttlefish are better at remembering what they ate for lunch last Wednesday than most humans.
713
@qikipedia
Psychic mediums are worse at identifying how people died from memorial photos than ordinary members of the public are.
714
@qikipedia
In 1966, the Procrastinators' Club of America held a protest against the War of 1812.
715
@qikipedia
You retain information better if it is accompanied by a pun.
716
@qikipedia
There are at least 18 known books that are bound in human skin.
(Image: Wellcome Images.)
717
@qikipedia
"A woman always has half an onion left over, no matter what the size of the onion, the dish, or the woman." TERRY PRATCHETT
718
@qikipedia
Patrick Harvie is the only member of the Scottish Parliament in history to have been cleared of the charge of blasphemy. The charge was brought by Donald Trump.
719
@qikipedia
The invention of glass spectacles in the late 13th century lengthened the professional life of scholars and craftspeople by fifteen years or more, by enabling them to read or practise detailed work for longer.
720
@qikipedia
"The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat." LILY TOMLIN
721
@qikipedia
It's not that we have too little time to do all the things we need to do. It's that we feel the need to do too many things in the time we have. GARY KELLER
722
@qikipedia
Australia’s Parliament building features a coat of arms with a kangaroo’s scrotum.
723
@qikipedia
"I am in fact a Hobbit (in all but size). I like gardens, trees, and unmechanised farmlands; I smoke a pipe, and like good plain food (unrefrigerated), but detest French cooking; I like, and even dare to wear in these dull days, ornamental waistcoats." J. R. R. TOLKIEN
724
@qikipedia
From 1912 to 1948, when art competitions were a part of the Olympic Games, three sculptors received Olympic medals for the medals they had created.
725
@qikipedia
One Polish equivalent to the phrase ‘in the middle of nowhere’ is ‘gdzie psy dupami szczekają’, literally ‘where dogs bark with their arses’.
@qikipedia
A Quite Interesting Twitter feed from the team behind the BBC TV show QI.
linktr.ee/TheQIElves