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#QI

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ABC journalist Kirsten Drysdale tested the Australian naming registry with an outrageous submission and now has a baby boy called ‘Methamphetamine Rules’.

There is a gene associated specifically with falling for the schoolyard trick, “smell my cheese”.

#genes #genetics #smellmycheese #QI #notQI

#QI

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Investing in libraries improves local children’s school test scores.

@brianklaas Have heard of him (thanks #QI) and -without reading article, so with apologies- didn’t he also cause CFKs in refrigeration (and thus ozone layer hole)?

Word of the Day: ABULIA - an inability to spell indecisive.

#WordOfTheDay #words #dictionary #abulia #indecisive #QI #notQI

#QI

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Most bees live underground.

#QI

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According to the US Food and Drug Administration, one of the commonly used medications in hot drink cold and flu powders, phenylephrine, doesn’t actually work.

In 1907, an American magazine suggested that drinking beer was a good way to get drunk.

#America #USA #magazine #articles #beer #booze #facts #QI #notQI

Word of the Day: CREPITUS - the medical term for an addiction to pancakes.

#WordOfTheDay #words #dictionary #crepitus #joints #pancakes #crepes #QI #notQI

Every colony of seals has a designated compliance officer; the seal of approval.

#sealife #animals #seals #seal #compliance #approval #standards #honkhonk #QI #notQI

A single town in China produces one half of the world's socks. A global logistical nightmare could be avoided if they made them in pairs.

#china #manufacturing #textiles #socks #oddsocks #QI #notQI

Despite the quality of their produce, Crocodiles don’t actually wear shoes or belts, or carry handbags.

#crocodiles #reptiles #fashion #QI #notQI

H. G. Wells’ real name was Wishing.

#authors #literature #HGWells #QI #notQI

On February 18, 1986, a Californian judge, annoyed by rain, bought an umbrella.

#USA #California #judge #rain #QI #notQI

#QI

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Due to their many customisation options, there are 383 billion different ways to order a latte at Starbucks.

#QI

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Crows have higher cholesterol levels if they regularly eat cheeseburgers. (From Improbable Research 29-5)

Cheetahs chirp and fly.

Oh no, wait, that’s birds.

#animals #cheetahs #chirp #QI #notQI

#QI

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A retired Boston University professor named Barbie Oppenheimer is struggling to book hotel rooms.

#QI

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According to a new paper in Nature Human Behavior, opposites do not attract. Over 80% of traits in couples were rated as similar and only 3% of their traits were substantially different.

#Sports @mastodonsports #QI

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Athletes appear larger if they wear a bigger number on their jersey.

Word of the Day: WAIT-GLEED - one who sits lazily watching the trash-fire that is his employer’s latest transformational change project.

#WordOfTheDay #words #dictionary #change #transformational #projects #business #management #QI #notQI

A 2017 issue of the comic book Asterix featured an antagonist called Weetabix, who was defeated with warm milk.

#comic #comics #Asterix #gauls #France #French #QI #notQI

Word of the Day: SYNTHESPIAN – one who pretends to play the keyboard.

#WordOfTheDay #words #dictionary #synthespian #QI #notQI

Almost everyone with British ancestry is descended from Britons.

#british #britons #britain #ancestry #descendants #genealogy #facts #QI #notQI

Only 0.1% of bacteria are cultured enough to be found at an opera.

#bacteria #culture #life #QI #notQI

pick a TV program.

Have I Got News For You
Mock The Week
QI

#MockTheWeek #HIGNFY #QI

#QI

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Students who complete a ‘science of happiness’ course are happier than those who don’t.

#QI

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Yale University was founded after a generous donation of books and money by Jeremiah Dummer, but they decided to name it after the less generous Elihu Yale. Had they not, it might have been called Dummer University.

The New Zealand Parliament's rules of conduct in the Chamber explicitly permit spelunking.

#NewZealand #parliament #government #rules #conduct #QI #notQI

Jor Utzon, the architect of the Sydney Opera House, would only play Scrabble if names were permitted.

#JorUtzon #architect #architecture #Australia #Sydney #SydneyOperaHouse #QI #notQI

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Altitude sickness is not possible in Australia, because there are no mountains high enough.

I must say that the #AppleEvent has been reminding me that I’ve been meaning to replace my current #Android phone. It’s a #SamsungGalaxyS10e and despite being refurbished, it’s been holding strong for the three years that I’ve had it. Still, I’d rather switch to a new phone than have it break suddenly and be without a phone.

My main hesitation is I need something that a) has a headphone jack b) has #Qi wireless charging and c) is supported by #LineageOS. And preferably d) is at least 6.2 inches in screen size

In a single gram of soil there is as much as 1,000,000 micrograms of earth!

#soil #earth #dirt #facts #QI #notQI

Stanford University has developed an AI toilet that can diagnose health problems by looking at your poo, while growing increasingly despondent at its own lot in life.

#Stanford #University #research #development #AI #toilet #health #QI #notQI

@goatsarah @fne8w2ah #Apples #Lightning Connector was shit from day 1 and had 0 reasons to exist - unlike the original #DockConnector, but even then the #iPod could've used #MiniUSB or #MicroUSB + #AV-Chinch and #MHL to do Audio & Video.

#MagSafe is also another #proprietary #SingleVendor solution when #Qi+ existed for over a decade.

#QI

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There were still law articles being published in 2002 discussing if West Virginia is in fact a state, or instead an illegal and unconstitutional breakaway province of Virginia.

England cricketer Alec Stewart was born on 8/4/63 and scored eight thousand, april and sixty-three Test runs during his career.

#england #cricket #cricketer #AlecStewart #test #runs #records #QI #notQI

Musician Will.i.am doesn't chew food on a Monday, keeping the larger stuff in his cheeks until Tuesday.

#music #pop #william #celebrity #food #eating #habits #disorders #QI #notQI

Tenzing Norgay claimed that had he known he'd lose 25 pounds during his famous Everest ascent, he'd not have bothered taking his wallet.

#TenzingNorgay #Everest #climbing #mountaineering #QI #notQI

#QI

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Russia is demanding Norway pay a fine for Norwegian reindeer trespassing onto Russian territory.

@SebastienK Verlos ons van de draden. Amen 🙏 #QI

If you suffer from micturition syncope, you faint when you pee and have a lot of extra cleaning to do.

#micturition #syncope #pee #wee #urination #QI #notQI

#QI

Tuvalu also does quite well from the .tv address.

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This year, Anguilla’s GDP could rise by 10% by licensing its country URL .ai.

#QI

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One in four currently charting pop songs in the UK samples an older song.

#QI

True ...

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Optimists are, on average, cleverer than cynics.

#QI 🏈 #CFB #CollegeFootball @cfb 🏈 #NFL @nfl

I did not know this. Hope you didn't get caught doing something in Alabama over the weekend ...

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American judges give harsher sentences when their football team unexpectedly loses.

#QI

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When it was popularised during World War II, duct tape was called ‘duck tape’ and it was not used on ducts.

I've been watching the T series of #QI ... Got to the animal episode ... Got to the discussion on male Tapir genitalia.

Mother. Of. God! :blobcatshocked:

#QI

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The US National Security Agency has asked employees to spy on people with ‘dignity and respect’.

#QI

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In areas where the climate protests Fridays for Future take place, the vote share for the Green Party increases.

#QI

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In 2016, the head of MI6 said he wouldn’t hire James Bond because he does not act ethically enough.

@MilaEmmieLiz

Too subtle?

#QI

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Wayne Rooney bought two race horses when he was 17 but his proposed names were rejected by the Jockey Club: Hoof Hearted and Norfolk Enchants.

#QI #StarTrek

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In Star Trek, when Spock says something is impossible, it happens 83% of the time.

#QI #80sTV

I didn't know this ...

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The TV show ‘Dallas’, about the family of an oil tycoon from Texas, was named by a producer. When the writer protested saying that ‘Houston is the oil city’, the producer said: ‘Who knows that? Who cares? Do you want to watch a show called “Houston”?’

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A 2017 estimate put the cost of the US President’s travel at $2,614 per minute.

Qi2 wireless chargers with MagSafe tech are coming #Anker, #Belkin, #Ifa2023, #MagneticPowerProfilie, #Magsafe, #Qi, #Qi2, #WirelessPowerConsortium, #Wpc

https://liliputing.com/qi2-wireless-chargers-with-magsafe-tech-are-coming/

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At least 1/7th of subscription service revenue is from people who forgot they were subscribed.

About one third of Australian towns have municipal barbecues that citizens can use if their own home barbecue is broken, or they forgot to bring their travel barbecue out shopping.

#Australia #Australians #barbecue #QI #notQI

#Writing #WritingCommunity #QI

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Talent is what they say
you have after the novel
is published and favorably
reviewed. Beforehand what
you have is a tedious
delusion, a hobby like knitting. MARGE PIERCY

Quem é o personagem mais inteligente em The Big Bang Theory?

Confira! 👇
https://olhardigital.com.br/2023/08/28/cinema-e-streaming/quem-e-o-personagem-mais-inteligente-em-the-big-bang-theory/

#TiraDúvidas #BigBangTheory #Sitcoms #Qi #ChuckLorre #CinemaEStreaming

The world’s oldest football was found in Stirling Castle, in a bedroom used by Mary Queen of Scots, alongside a poster of Alan Hansen.

#football #soccer #history #scotland #stirling #stirlingcastle #maryqueenofscots #QI #notQI

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In the first Danish edition of Ray Bradbury’s ‘Fahrenheit 451’, the title was changed to ‘233° Celsius’.

Definitions rejected by the Oxford English Dictionary include: SHATTERBORE (the obnoxious person who cheers when a glass is dropped in a bar), PROXIDIOT (a driver that parks their car too close to yours), and EASYJET SEAL (anyone that claps the landing of the plane they’re aboard). In all cases the OED felt ‘cunt’ would be sufficient.

#dictionary #oed #words #definitions #rejected #QI #notQI

Lake Superior contains as much water as it can hold.

#LakeSuperior #GreatLakes #USA #water #geography #environment #QI #notQI

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A single town in China produces one third of the world’s supplies of socks.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Who Came To #England With #Jesus? | QI https://youtu.be/JjAOMSsDMbo #Youtube #Video #Videos #QI

@AnneTheWriter1

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During the 1911 UK census, Matilda Sharpe (‘81 tomorrow’) gave her occupation as ‘alas too idle yet writing a book’.

17th century slang expressions for sex included ‘play at rumpscuttle and clapperdepouch’, ‘play at pork and fish’, ‘feed the ugly pony a fat carrot’, ‘enjoy a game of low archery’, and ‘introduce Lady Wyedon to the charcuterie board’.

#english #language #slang #euphemisms #history #17thcentury #sex #QI #notQI

@ScienceDesk @alandavies1@twitter.com (Alan Davies, comedian, actor) of #QI fame will be quite disappointed if this is true!!!

The Italian village of Campione d’Italia is entirely surrounded by Switzerland, who want it to put down its weapons and come out with its hands up.

#Italy #Switzerland #Europe #CampioneDItalia #geography #politics #borders #QI #notQI

This is the coat of arms of Zheleznogorsk, a formerly closed city where Russia produced plutonium. It inexplicably shows a huge bear spinning three hula hoops while pulling apart an ostrich egg.

#russia #zheleznogorsk #nuclear #atomic #plutonium #geography #industry #QI #notQI

Japanese scientists are trialling a tooth-growing drug which could be used to grow teeth.

#science #innovation #research #development #japan #teeth #tooth #facts #QI #notQI

Between 1970 and 2007, Bangladesh reduced the number of deaths from cyclones to zero through a simple process of adjusting the definition of a cyclone.

#Bangladesh #cyclones #cyclone #storms #wind #facts #QI #notQI

If you’ve been following my return to #Qigong journey on the bird app, I’m pleased to say I finally worked through that last layer of deep tension—it took a few days, and it was a brutal one, but I did it

Now the only #Qi blockages I can sense throughout my body are little disconnected pockets of localized trapped tension, which I can focus on one at a time

In 1964 three young scientists with no nuclear physics experience were asked to design a nuclear bomb. They had no access to classified materials, only publicly available information. They failed to make a bomb but did produce a substance that was later marketed as ‘Kraft Singles’ cheese slices.

#nuclearphysics #nuclear #atomicbomb #bomb #design #engineering #science #history #toxicwaste #QI #notQI

There was no better example of the need for more women on panel games and similar shows than #QI S10E11.

@AbandonedAmerica Reminds me of the #British #BBC factoids program #QI, where they once mentioned that ‘boy’ used to mean ‘servant’ and children of both sexes were called girls. The pic is from Indiatoday, a rather arbitrary secondary source…

What's The Most Perilous Job In The World? | QI - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoVkeAzO1zM

#QI #Trivia #History #Jobs

Nykyinen langattoman latauksen standardi Qi on jo 15 vuotta vanha. Nyt se uudistuu isolla kädellä, kun Apple on luovuttanut MagSafe-tekniikkansa uuden standardin pohjaksi.

Käytännössä ensi vuonna nähtäneen sekä Android-kännyköissä että älykelloissa Qi2 -latauksen vyöry, kun uusi tekniikka otetaan käyttöön.

https://www.puhelinvertailu.com/uutiset/2023/01/04/qi2-langaton-lataus-standardi

#langatonlataus #qi2 #uutiset #teknologia #qi #tekniikka #magsafe

They Say Of The Acropolis Where The Parthenon Is...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdvD4Fh

#QI #Comedy #Geometry

@stephenfry It's like the #QI fact about eating banana daily increases mortality rate by a tiny weely bit.

Are they sure they are not confusing "getting older" and "eating banana daily"?

@SabinaKnight @nigelwarburton Chinese and Japanese painting styles are amazing. One particularly beautiful painting is Traces dans la ville (Tracks in the city), 1954, by Zao Wou-Ki. My #abstractart is, in a way, inspired by the concept of #Qi (life force). #Sumi-e brush painting style is so beautiful.

Magnetic chargers are the future

Apparently, Apple plans to make a port-less iPhone which only uses wireless charging.

This is something I predicted 7 years ago!

Qi - the wireless charging standard - is excellent. Put your phone down on a mat, or in a cradle, and it starts charging. Lovely! But there's a problem. You can't pick up your phone while it's charging. How many times have you lain on

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/09/magnetic-chargers-are-the-future/

#/etc/ #mobile #qi