Quite Interesting facts from the team behind the BBC TV show QI. https://t.co/KajPX02jPd https://t.co/e7kKHcHU2N https://t.co/q3qVciWTD7
Alcohol really can make you better at speaking foreign languages. (Study: ).
The flag of Nepal is so difficult to draw correctly that the country’s constitution provides a 24-step instruction guide.
The word ‘frustrating’ first appeared in print in George Eliot’s Middlemarch.
The recently-closed Antigallican pub in Woolwich, London, was named after an 18th century society that campaigned against the influx of French culture and produce to Britain.
About a third of people sneeze when they look at bright light. Although this has been studied since Aristotle first recorded it, no one knows why it happens.
Cuttlefish have self-control, and are able to hold off eating snacks on the promise that they will get a better snack later.
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Word of the day: TASLEEK (Saudi Arabic) - to nod along and pretend you care what another person is saying
On October 1st 1861, Charles Darwin wrote in his diary: ‘I am very poorly today and very stupid and hate everybody and everything’
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