#notqi — Public Fediverse posts
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In the US, ground pepper can contain up to 475 insect fragments per 50 grammes. Any more than this and it is sold as “A secret blend of herbs and spices.”
#USA #food #regulation #hygiene #safety #pepper #groundpepper #QI #notQI
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In the US, ground pepper can contain up to 475 insect fragments per 50 grammes. Any more than this and it is sold as “A secret blend of herbs and spices.”
#USA #food #regulation #hygiene #safety #pepper #groundpepper #QI #notQI
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In the US, ground pepper can contain up to 475 insect fragments per 50 grammes. Any more than this and it is sold as “A secret blend of herbs and spices.”
#USA #food #regulation #hygiene #safety #pepper #groundpepper #QI #notQI
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In the US, ground pepper can contain up to 475 insect fragments per 50 grammes. Any more than this and it is sold as “A secret blend of herbs and spices.”
#USA #food #regulation #hygiene #safety #pepper #groundpepper #QI #notQI
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When people can't see their skin, they are very bad at knowing if they have goosebumps or not. Though it’s of little concern now they have a working invisibility serum.
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Your hands are heavier than you think they are. No, even heavier than that. No, more. Heavier. Heavier. Keep trying. No, much heavier. C’mon. Heavier still. Uh, look, we’ll just leave you to it.
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Before cane sugar was introduced to Europe, food was often sweetened with bees.
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Every day, about three hundred million Americans believe they are cleverer than they are.
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There is a gene associated specifically with falling for the schoolyard trick, “smell my cheese”.
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Word of the Day: ABULIA - an inability to spell indecisive.
#WordOfTheDay #words #dictionary #abulia #indecisive #QI #notQI
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Word of the Day: CREPITUS - the medical term for an addiction to pancakes.
#WordOfTheDay #words #dictionary #crepitus #joints #pancakes #crepes #QI #notQI
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Every colony of seals has a designated compliance officer; the seal of approval.
#sealife #animals #seals #seal #compliance #approval #standards #honkhonk #QI #notQI
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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.
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Despite the quality of their produce, Crocodiles don’t actually wear shoes or belts, or carry handbags.
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H. G. Wells’ real name was Wishing.
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On February 18, 1986, a Californian judge, annoyed by rain, bought an umbrella.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Word of the Day: SYNTHESPIAN – one who pretends to play the keyboard.
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Word of the Day: SYNTHESPIAN – one who pretends to play the keyboard.
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Word of the Day: SYNTHESPIAN – one who pretends to play the keyboard.
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Word of the Day: SYNTHESPIAN – one who pretends to play the keyboard.
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Almost everyone with British ancestry is descended from Britons.
#british #britons #britain #ancestry #descendants #genealogy #facts #QI #notQI
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The New Zealand Parliament's rules of conduct in the Chamber explicitly permit spelunking.
#NewZealand #parliament #government #rules #conduct #QI #notQI
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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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If you suffer from micturition syncope, you faint when you pee and have a lot of extra cleaning to do.
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Some data centres are powered by water.
Check out Alibaba for the incredible IEC Lead - Garden Hose adapters.
#power #electricity #water #waterpower #datacentres #IT #tech #QI #notQI
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During the 1911 UK census, one Gloria Skock gave her occupation as 'tea-leaf, palm, and bottom reader'.
#UK #census #history #occupations #jobs #tealeaves #palms #bottoms #QI #notQI
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Botanist Anna Atkins's ‘Photographs Of British Algae’ (1843) is thought to be the first book that caused death by boredom.
#botany #botanists #science #british #algae #photography #book #QI #notQI
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A shopping centre in Malaysia made the world's biggest laksa (noodle soup) then had to throw all 600kg of it away when a cook accidentally double-dipped.
#WorldRecords #Malaysia #Laksa #NoodleSoup #DoubleDipping #QI #notQI
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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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Observers of the first atomic bomb explosions likened the shape of the resulting cloud to a mushroom, a cauliflower, and the tip of a human penis.
#nuclearweapons #nuclearbomb #atomicbomb #atombomb #explosions #clouds #mushroomcloud #mushroom #cauliflower #bellend #QI #notQI
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Observers of the first atomic bomb explosions likened the shape of the resulting cloud to a mushroom, a cauliflower, and the tip of a human penis.
#nuclearweapons #nuclearbomb #atomicbomb #atombomb #explosions #clouds #mushroomcloud #mushroom #cauliflower #bellend #QI #notQI
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Observers of the first atomic bomb explosions likened the shape of the resulting cloud to a mushroom, a cauliflower, and the tip of a human penis.
#nuclearweapons #nuclearbomb #atomicbomb #atombomb #explosions #clouds #mushroomcloud #mushroom #cauliflower #bellend #QI #notQI
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Observers of the first atomic bomb explosions likened the shape of the resulting cloud to a mushroom, a cauliflower, and the tip of a human penis.
#nuclearweapons #nuclearbomb #atomicbomb #atombomb #explosions #clouds #mushroomcloud #mushroom #cauliflower #bellend #QI #notQI