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Quite Interesting @qikipedia 19 hours ago

In the latest episode of QI XS, the Elves recreate the London Beer Flood of 1814... Don't forget to subscribe!

Quite Interesting @qikipedia 19 hours ago

The first rubber condoms were made to measure, and designed to be reusable.

Quite Interesting @qikipedia 17 hours ago

To help speed up the solving-time for Rubik’s Cubes, lubricants can be used to grease the joints. These include Cubicle Lubicle, Cosmic Lube and Lubix Cube.

Quite Interesting @qikipedia 14 hours ago

Pythagoras thought he was reincarnated from the son of the god Hermes.

Quite Interesting @qikipedia 11 hours ago

In 2019 a Danish politician paid for ads on Pornhub. When questioned he said "Half the internet is porn and you need to be where the voters are."

Quite Interesting @qikipedia 9 hours ago

Cows moo to each other about their feelings.

Quite Interesting @qikipedia 7 hours ago

Certain plants use a combination of acid and hair-like roots to dissolve and extract nutrients from solid rock.

Quite Interesting @qikipedia 5 hours ago

A study has shown that 1 in 5 men would give up sex for a year to get the 'perfect beard'.

Quite Interesting @qikipedia 3 hours ago

Snails will sleep for up to three years if the weather isn't good enough.

Quite Interesting @qikipedia 1 hours ago

The human body has taste receptors all over the place – including in the respiratory system, bladder, colon, brain, liver, and testes.

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Quite Interesting @qikipedia 7 month ago

Until 1979, Sweden classified homosexuality as a mental illness. That year, activists took the classification as an illness to its logical extent - Swedes called in too gay to go to work.

Quite Interesting @qikipedia 1 years ago

Word of the day: TASLEEK (Saudi Arabic) - to nod along and pretend you care what another person is saying

Quite Interesting @qikipedia 5 month ago

On October 1st 1861, Charles Darwin wrote in his diary: ‘I am very poorly today and very stupid and hate everybody and everything’

Quite Interesting @qikipedia 1 years ago

In English, a "French exit" is to sneak out of a party without telling anyone. In French, it is known as "partir à l’anglaise" - to leave the English way.

Quite Interesting @qikipedia 10 month ago

Independence from Britain is celebrated somewhere in the world, on average, one in every seven days.

Quite Interesting @qikipedia 3 month ago

Word of the day: HIMBO (late 80s slang) - an attractive but unintelligent man

Quite Interesting @qikipedia 4 month ago

Word of the day: BORIS-NORIS (19th century) - to go on blindly, without any thought of risk or decency

Quite Interesting @qikipedia 2 years ago

In Washington DC, the Slovakian and Slovenian embassies meet once a month to exchange wrongly addressed mail.

Quite Interesting @qikipedia 3 month ago

Word of the Day: ÁILLEÁNACH (Irish) - an attractive and yet useless man.

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