#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.

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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’.

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

@MilaEmmieLiz

Too subtle?

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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/

#magsafe ist toll, aber kein Standard? Mit #Qi2 wurde #Qi u.a. um genau diese Fähigkeit erweitert, wodurch Sender und Empfänger besser ausgerichtet und schneller aufgeladen werden und die Hitzeentwicklung niedriger wird. skyynet.de/charging

#magsafe is great, but not a standard? With #Qi2, #Qi has been extended to include exactly this capability, among others, which means that transmitters and receivers are better aligned, charge faster and heat generation is lower. skyynet.de/e-charging

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

#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

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

The pocket shark is so named because it is perfectly sized to fit in the pocket of a lady’s overcoat or gentleman’s cagoule.

#sealife #ocean #shark #pocketsharks #pockets #fashion #QI #notQI

Henry Star was a Notorious US bank robber and not a luminous astronomical body.

#HenryStarr #bankrobber #bankrobbery #star #space #QI #notQI

Australians called camels “Big Lumpy Bastards” until someone there learnt to read.

#camels #camel #names #humps #lumps #australia #QI #notQI

Gullible is the only word in the dictionary without a definition.

#words #dictionary #gullible #QI #notQI

The County of Los Angeles has a population of “somewhere north of 40 people”.

#LosAngeles #LA #LACounty #USA #population #census #QI #notQI