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Connoisseur said:
A sex manual in Qing dynasty China outlined 48 different ways to fondle a mutilated foot.

Musical theatre is the genre of music least likely to be played in the bedroom.

In 1917, P.G Wodehouse had five musicals on Broadway at the same time.

Ostentation funk is a Brazilian musical genre that celebrates the middle-class lifestyle.

40% of working Britons have less than £100 in savings.

1.7 million Britons haven’t got a bank account.

The chief economist at the Bank of England has never owned a credit card.

The Pope doesn’t know how to use a computer.

Westminster Abbey has a cleric called Canon Ball.

The head of the UK police task force on knife crime is called Alfred Hitchcock.

The man who holds the British record for submitting Everest is a Mr K. Cool.

IKEA sofas have Swedish names, its rugs have Danish names and its beds have Norwegian names.
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Norwegian passports display the aurora borealis under a UV light.

You can be blocked from getting a Swiss passport if your neighbours find you too annoying.

Horses competing in the Olympics have their own passports and fly business class.

A beer tap on an aeroplane would dispense only foam.

The world’s most popular beer is called Snow and is virtually unknown outside China.

The most common job in the UK is ‘manager’.

In 2016, a London company advertised for an ‘emoji translator’.

In 2017, the US Secret Service advertised for a ‘social media sarcasm spotter’.

If you blend 25 random pictures from the Internet, the result will be orange.

‘International orange’ is the specific shade of orange used for NASA spacesuits, the Tokyo Tower and the Golden Gate Bridge.

Saturn’s North Pole is blue.

NASA provided the first American woman in space with a specially designed make-up kit.
 
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Norwegian passports display the aurora borealis under a UV light.

You can be blocked from getting a Swiss passport if your neighbours find you too annoying.

Horses competing in the Olympics have their own passports and fly business class.

A beer tap on an aeroplane would dispense only foam.

The world’s most popular beer is called Snow and is virtually unknown outside China.

The most common job in the UK is ‘manager’.

In 2016, a London company advertised for an ‘emoji translator’.

In 2017, the US Secret Service advertised for a ‘social media sarcasm spotter’.

If you blend 25 random pictures from the Internet, the result will be orange.

‘International orange’ is the specific shade of orange used for NASA spacesuits, the Tokyo Tower and the Golden Gate Bridge.

Saturn’s North Pole is blue.

NASA provided the first American woman in space with a specially designed make-up kit.
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American astronauts on the International Space Station can vote in elections by email.

In 2015, President Obama made it legal for Americans to own asteroids.

The smallest satellite ever made weighs less than a smartphone.

NASA spacesuits are called Extravehicular Mobility Units.

Chocolate, salmon and whisky are the UK’s top three food and drink exports.

In January 1205, it was so cold in England that wine and ale froze and were sold by weight, not volume.

The US’s ninth-largest brewery has made a new beer from recycled sewage water.

In Finland, you can buy a party pack of 1000 cans of beer.

In Sweden, you can buy toilet paper called Krapp.

The original patent for the toilet-roll holder showed the paper hanging over the holder, not under.

Post-it notes should be peeled with the sticky strip vertical, not horizontal.

Wrapping paper is only 100 years old.
 
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Connoisseur said:
In Finland, you can buy a party pack of 1000 cans of beer.
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Ironhawk said:
1000 can party pack - wonder how you would carry that to your car?
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It actually has 1080 cans, that are 500ml cans, and comes on a shipping palate. I guesstimate it weighs around 600kg.
It was only made as an exaggerated marketing ploy, as one the companies rivals started selling 100 can packs.
It cost around $3,200
 
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QI True or False Questions:
1. There is a language in New Guinea used just for gathering nuts.
2. There’s recently been a worrying increase of seals with eels stuck up their noses.
3. The Aztec word for Armadillo literally translates as “turtle-cat”.
4. American badgers ward off predators by turning their anal pouches inside out.
 
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