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Ironhawk

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@Diabolical, @Darkie, @Ironhawk, @PC, @Professor, @Rowsus and @IDIG

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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Professor

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@Diabolical, @Darkie, @Ironhawk, @PC, @Professor, @Rowsus and @IDIG

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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Darkie

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@Diabolical, @Darkie, @Ironhawk, @PC, @Professor, @Rowsus and @IDIG

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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I’ll say:
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Diabolical

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@Diabolical, @Darkie, @Ironhawk, @PC, @Professor, @Rowsus and @IDIG

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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More guessing ...
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IDIG

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@Diabolical, @Darkie, @Ironhawk, @PC, @Professor, @Rowsus and @IDIG

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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Seriously just guessing but
1. True - kinda makes sense in one of those really isolated tribes
2. True - too ridiculous to be true so I’ll say it actually is
3. False - makes too much sense
4. False - lol ?
 
Rowsus

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@Diabolical, @Darkie, @Ironhawk, @PC, @Professor, @Rowsus, @THCLT and @IDIG

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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I'm going to say:
False - it used for gathering nuts AND berries!
False - sounds too absurd.
True - can't have 3 falses in a row!
False - just think I would have heard of it before.
 
Connoisseur

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Ironhawk said:
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Darkie said:
I’ll say:
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Professor said:
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Diabolical said:
More guessing ...
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IDIG said:
Seriously just guessing but
1. True - kinda makes sense in one of those really isolated tribes
2. True - too ridiculous to be true so I’ll say it actually is
3. False - makes too much sense
4. False - lol ?
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Rowsus said:
I'm going to say:
False - it used for gathering nuts AND berries!
False - sounds too absurd.
True - can't have 3 falses in a row!
False - just think I would have heard of it before.
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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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1 in 100 Americans work for Walmart.

FTSE 100 CEO’s make more money in two and a half days than the average worker makes in a year.

Only 4.2% of Fortune companies are run by women.

Men appear in the newspapers three times as often as women and have done so since 1800.

During the Second World War, Women’s Institutes played ‘Pin the Moustache in Hitler’.

In the Second World War, it was illegal to post knitting patterns abroad in case they contained coded messages.

In 1857, British Officials were convinced Indian villagers were passing secret messages hidden in chapattis.

The first editorial assistant to work on the Oxford English Dictionary was sacked for industrial espionage.

My Adventures as a Spy, by Lord Baden-Powell, has a chapter on ‘The Value of Being Stupid’.

Secret agents have to be trained to forget their advanced driving courses.

The CIA use board games to train spies.

The CIA Museum in Langley, Virginia is not open to the public.
 
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