Quizotic Mirth

Novel trivia gameshow Occasionally tweet curious facts Also behind @rhymes_un

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Nepal's flag is the only one that isn't rectangular If it wasn't for the border, it would be a simple 3:4 ratio size WITH the border, it gets more complicated!
#nepal #nepokids #nepoNepal

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Les Mills, the eponymous athlete of Body Pump fame (developed by his son) was a Commonwealth gold medallist and was Mayor of New Zealand's most populous city, Auckland

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Olivia Newton-John's (Grease) maternal grand-father was the Nobel (Physics) laureate Max Born and her father worked on cracking the Enigma code at Bletchley Park, and arrested Rudolf Hess, Hitler's deputy from 1933 until his capture in 1941

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Mozart performed in a London pub when he was 8 years old
Ho Chi Minh worked as a kitchen hand in a pub in Ealing

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Some famous books have alternative titles:
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus
Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress

and the classic film
Dr. Strangelove; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

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Pocahontas, who died in Kent (England), had a great, great, great, great grand-daughter who married the US president and because the First Lady of the USA (Edith Wilson)

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In 2018, the King of Saudi Arabia had an allowance of $800m a MONTH - nearly $10bn a year

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Casio was founded by Mr Kashio and their first product was a ring to help you smoke
the profits from this successful product went to producing calculators - this was their first model (1957)

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The goalkeepers in this international match were 14 and 41 years old! https://t.co/VBkes72vWi

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Postcodes:
SW1A 0AA: House of Commons
SW1A 1AA: Buckingham Palace
SW1A 2AA: 10 Downing Street

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Copper turns green due to a chemical reaction called oxidation, which is also known as a patina.
A famous green copper-clad statue once looked very different!

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The 18th Duke of Alburquerque became obsessed with winning Britain's Grand National Steeplechase horse race after watching a film of the race on his eighth birthday

He never won it, but broke more bones than any other jockey in attempting to do so

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At the last (2020) census, USA had 10 cities with over 1m people - including 3 in California and 3 in Texas, with just NYC, Chicago, Phoenix and Philadelphia making the list

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Isaac Newton's school is 696 years old, but has only had 11 notable people
Two of them were Andys who were Asda CEOs in the 2000s!

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This guy has not only eaten a record 34,000 Big Macs, peaking at 9 a day during a 50 year stint, he's kept every receipt and carton

https://t.co/E4flDnE33i

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Kisspeptin was named so because it was discovered close to the home of Hershey’s kiss but aptly it’s now helping increase kisses

Sex drive boosted by hormone kisspeptin in trials https://t.co/eVo3hGjXw4

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It wasn’t Keith Flint, rather Kool Keith from Ultramagnetic MCs
Both songs had vocal samples from the 1988 album Critical Beatdown

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Which Keith featured on the vocals for The Prodigy’s Out Of Space (I’ll take your brain to another dimension, pay close attention) and Smack My Bitch Up (change my pitch up, smack my bitch up)?

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Ever wonder why some actors don’t use their birth name?

Equity, the actor’s union (in the UK), with over 46,000 members, require each member to have a unique name to avoid confusion

One such example is David Williams renaming himself to david wAlliams!

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@UndeniablyAlex Disgraceful and unwarranted personal attack on an innocent and private individual
Solidarity, Alex