#notqi — Public Fediverse posts
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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: 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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Almost everyone with British ancestry is descended from Britons.
#british #britons #britain #ancestry #descendants #genealogy #facts #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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If you suffer from micturition syncope, you faint when you pee and have a lot of extra cleaning to do.
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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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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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Death Valley National Park’s official rules prohibit visitors from dying there.
#DeathValley #NationalParks #USA #rules #laws #prohibited #death #QI #notQI
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During the opening weekend of the film Oppenheimer, it became available to watch in cinemas.
#movies #film #cinema #openingweekend #release #oppenheimer #facts #QI #notQI
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A 2006 physics paper includes the acknowledgement: ‘Sorry Mom, it turns out it is rocket science.’
#science #physics #paper #acknowledgement #rocketscience #QI #notQI
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During World War II, nutritionists Elsie Otterpocket and Horace Bovine “meticulously researched a protein poor diet that allowed you to eat as much potato, veg and wholemeal bread as you wanted.”
(Which was the Government’s way of saying they’d failed to issue them ration cards.)#WorldWar2 #wwii #wartime #history #food #nutrition #diet #rationing #rations #QI #notQI
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In 1976, the BBC declined to show a Formula One race when they learnt one of the cars was sponsored by Durex. Instead they repeated episodes of Top of the Pops presented by Dave Lee Travis, Jimmy Savile and Peter Sutcliffe.
#Formula1 #Sports #TV #LiveTV #Sponsors #Adverts #Durex #BBC #1970s #Seventies #ItWasDifferentBackThen #GoodOldDays #notQI
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Travel agent Thomas Cook’s first tourist trip covered the 11 miles from Leicester to Loughborough, where every passenger received a sports science degree.
#ThomasCook #TravelAgent #travel #holidays #Leicester #Loughborough #UK #facts #QI #notQI
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A supervolcano is defined as one that has the potential to cover Wales in molten rock 50 metres deep. Nobody is sure why Wales has been targeted specifically. (Not via @[email protected])
#volcano #supervolcano #molten #rock #magma #wales #fact #qi #notqi
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At the 1965 Pentathlon World Championships, veteran Austrian Herbert Poopenhuber was leading the competition until he missed the last event, forgetting there were five.
#pentathlon #athletics #worldchampionships #counting #facts #QI #notQI
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Rupert Murdoch once paid for a UK postcode (E98) to be be relocated so that he wouldn’t have to learn a new address when his News Corp. business moved its offices.
#RupertMurdoch #UK #postcode #postcodes #addresses #richoldwhitemen #QI #notQI
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In 1968, the first athlete to be disqualified for doping at the Olympic Games was modern pentathlete Hans-Gunnar Liljenwall. He’d done nothing wrong but when an American judge saw him write his name he was assumed to be high.
#Olympics #ModernPentathlete #doping #drugtesting #sports #history #QI #notQI
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In order to eradicate rabies from foxes in Switzerland, the government is giving away any land they inhabit to other countries.
#switzerland #europe #foxes #fox #rabid #rabies #eradication #qi #notqi
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In his autobiography Andre Agassi admitted that he always has to check how to spell his name too.
#AndreAgassi #agassi #tennis #tennislegends #wimbledon #autobiography #books #QI #notQI
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The term ‘barista’ was introduced during Mussolini’s campaign against the use of foreign-languages. It was considered a more Italian word to replace the English term ‘tea lady’.
#barista #baristas #barman #tealady #coffee #coffeelover #coffeemaker #italiancoffee #italy #history #mussolini #QI #notQI
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Novelist John Le Carré was not actually a French-sounding automobile or a square.
#novelists #writers #authors #pennames #JohnLeCarre #facts #QI #notQI
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Banned techniques in athletics events include somersaulting in the long jump, spinning into a javelin throw, and riding the trackside camera in the 100 metres.
#sport #athletics #banned #techniques #longjump #javelin #100metres #sprinting #facts #QI #notQI
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The word ‘tyre’ comes from ‘attire’, if you don’t look too closely.
#etymology #words #dictionary #lexicon #tyre #attire #QI #NotQI