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The QI thread of things you found reasonably arresting, mildly intriguing, & yes, quite interesting.
Multiple factoids, you lucky badgers.
1) When the Thai youth football team got itself stuck in a cave during 2018, one of the plans was to just leave them there, sending them supplies, until the monsoon season ended.
2) In China, Hong K…
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Blue Swirl
December 2023
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The QI thread of things you found reasonably arresting, mildly intriguing, & yes, quite interesting.
If you lived in the Ionian Islands between 1796 and 1863, your nationality would change five times.
You'd start as a Venetian, then go French in 1797, some how be Russian and Ottoman in 1800, back to French in 1807, British in 1809, then …
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Blue Swirl
August 2023
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The QI thread of things you found reasonably arresting, mildly intriguing, & yes, quite interesting.
The smallest county in the United States, Kalawao County in Hawaii, was formerly a leper colony.
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Blue Swirl
August 2023
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OFFICIAL B&B SECRET SANTA 2021! THE BIG REVEAL!
Moot_Geeza wrote:
Why do they spy on blankets?
Smallpox.
#historyjoke
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Blue Swirl
December 2021
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Current Affairs
I mean, it is, but you do have to click through to se responses.
I wouldn't have read them if liv hadn't mentioned it.
BBC link came up because someone I follow linked to it. The comments under their retweet were from actual p…
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Facewon
February 2020
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Code and shit
I've done Java before, but not much JavaScript, and what you've got is very much the latter and they're very different beasts (sharing the Java bit of the name is deeply unhelpful, #history).
So I can't actually help much .…
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acemuzzy
April 2019
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PlayStation® 4
beano wrote:
acemuzzy wrote:
What are its origins? I know the phrase but not whence it came
The people who gave Windows it's foundations...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wake-on-LAN#History
I haven't looked at …
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acemuzzy
September 2013
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PlayStation® 4
acemuzzy wrote:
What are its origins? I know the phrase but not whence it came
The people who gave Windows it's foundations...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wake-on-LAN#History
I haven't looked at that article in at…
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beano
September 2013
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Dishonoured
Gonzo wrote:
Tempy wrote:
Aha, I miss those ok Gonz posts
Sir, I challenge you to a duel.
eeek, iPhone autocorrect has made comment inappropriate, isn't this how all that Gaza Strip stuff began #historylesson
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Tempy
October 2012
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God
Mod74 wrote:
I can't really be arsed but they seem important to you so I've just had a quick look into these Apostle and Nicene creeds and it turns out they're just that. Creeds. They were designed to briefly summarise articles of fai…
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djchump
May 2012
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