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On his deathbed, surgeon Joseph Henry Green was checking his pulse, and his last word was ‘Stopped’.
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Zombies would likely develop high cholesterol on an all-brains diet.
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In 1802, US businessman Timothy Dexter wrote a book, ‘A Pickle for the Knowing Ones’, containing no punctuation marks. When readers complained, he released a second edition with 11 lines of punctuation at the end for readers to distribute as they saw fit.
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Word of the Day: BINFLUENCER (neologism) — ‘the person on a street who takes the lead in putting out the correct waste and recycling bins on the correct day, thus prompting neighbours to follow suit’.
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The political terms ‘left’ and ‘right’ date back to the physical layout of the French National Assembly during the early stage of the Revolution in 1789: supporters of the king were ranged to the right of the presiding officer and their revolutionary opponents to the left.
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About 40% of the ants in an ant colony are "lazy" and spend most of their time just sitting around.
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20% of dogs love being told they're a good dog more than they love food.
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Banana trees are not trees that bear fruit, they’re technically herbs that bear berries.
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The Spanish word for cardigan is 'rebeca’ based on the one Joan Fontaine wore in the 1940 Hitchcock film ‘Rebecca’.
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"A vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what you're attempting can't be done." TERRY PRATCHETT
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The oldest recorded joke (from 1900 BCE) was a fart joke.
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MIT students are certified as pirates if they complete archery, sailing, fencing, and pistol shooting courses.
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An Ancient Roman mosaic in Sicily shows women sometimes wore bikinis.
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In 1850, a cult gave 600 acres in Pennsylvania to God.
It was later repossessed by the state because God did not pay his taxes.
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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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The female blue tit weaves aromatic plants like lavender and mint into its nest to ward off bacteria, fungi and insects.
(Image: Francis C. Franklin)
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Termites eat wood faster when listening to rock and heavy metal.
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To avoid US libel suits, authors will sometimes make sure to note that a fictionalized person has a small penis.
For libel, it must be obvious the real person and character are the same.
Men rarely want to prove in court that they are obviously the character with a small penis.
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Word of the day: HYPNOPOMPIA - the half-concious state when you're just waking up
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NASA's top priority this decade is probing Uranus.
(Image: Judy Schmidt; CC BY.)
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In an experiment conducted in Moscow, people had to answer questions about politics and have a drink every 12 minutes. The study ran for 1.5 hours and has shown that the more people drank, the more they began to support the government.
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In 2018, a woman in Crimea stole 70,000 rubles from a fortune-teller who had predicted that she would come into some money soon.
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Eight out of ten of all the languages humans have ever spoken are now extinct.
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In 1996, a store manager in California robbed the store, reported the robbery, and then gave a detailed description of the ‘suspect’ to the sketch artist. When the police pointed out to him that the ‘suspect’ looked exactly like him, the man confessed.
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Viking nicknames included ‘desirous of beer’, ‘squat-wiggle’, ‘lust-hostage’, ‘short penis’, ‘able to fill a bay with fish by magic’, ‘the man who mixes his drinks’ and ‘the man without trousers’.
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