DB

Strategist @Contagious

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@marcellacom2l Oi, I've just been in Richmond and I'm at the river heading home now

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Women’s relative earnings increase 4% when their manager becomes the father of a daughter, rather than a son. This daughter effect was found in 25 years of Danish small-business data.
~ Ronchi & Smith (2021)

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Saddam Hussein, who apparently liked to make a great display of barbecuing for his friends, would routinely pour Tobasco over the meat he'd cooked, "to see if anyone would complain". Unsurprisingly, no one did.
~ Szablowski (2020)

#Tobasco #SaddamHussein

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To 'Win Hands Down' suggests a very comfortable victory. The expression comes from the sport of horse racing; when a jockey is winning comfortably they can gallop down the finishing straight without using the whip, thereby winning with their 'hands down'.
~ Jack (2004)
#Winning

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Despite being one of the most irreligious countries on earth, Britain is the only sovereign state, with the exception of the Islamic Republic of Iran, that permits unelected clerics/bishops to make up part of its legislature.
~ Jones (2014)
#Amen #HotPriest

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“Creativity is not a talent. It is a way of operating”
~ John Cleese

#Creativity #SillyWalks

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According to Google, their search engine fields 3.5 billion requests every day. Remarkably, approximately 15% of these 3.5 billion searches have never been requested before.

#Search

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A total of around 300,000 Russian soldiers are believed to have been killed by their own commanders during WW2 – more than the entire death toll suffered by British troops who perished at the hands of the actual enemy.
~ Hastings (2011)

#RussianRoulette #WW2

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The biggest single predictor of political party affiliation – and of the broader value systems associated with it – is the party affiliation of our parents.
~ Westen (2008)

#Politcs #HeyBigBoy #FlipToTheCentre

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Our modern notion of 'left' and 'right' politics stems from the 1789 French revoultion, where defenders of the aristocracy & crown placed themselves on the right side of the chamber of the French assembly, while supporters of the revolutionaries sat opposite.
#VaVaVoom #OohLaLa

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Redheads are more likely to be left-handed. Both of these characteristics come from recessive genes, which typically come in pairs.
#RedHeads #Leftys

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In Germany, where you need to register in order to become an organ donor, the uptake is 12%. Next door in Austria, where the default option assumes you already want to be an organ donor, the consent rate is 99.9%
~ Halpern (2015)
#OrganDonation #OptIn

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The 'pratfall effect' is the tendency for attractiveness to ⬆️ or ⬇️ after an individual makes a mistake. A perceived highly-competent individual is, on average, more likable after committing a blunder, while the opposite would occur if a perceived average person makes a mistake.

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"A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules"
~ Anthony Trollope
#EryDay

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Ultracrepidarianism - The habit of giving opinions and advice on matters outside of one’s knowledge or competence.

#WordOfTheDay

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Compared with typical scientists, Nobel laureates are at least 2 times more likely to be photographers, 4 times more likely to be musicians, and 17 times more likely to be artists.
~ Root-Bernstein et al (2008)
#Arts #Science

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The word ‘advertisement’ is derived from the Latin ‘adverterre’, meaning ‘to turn towards’.

#Etymology

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By the end of the WW2, RAF Bomber Command was capable, in a single 24 hour period, of dropping as many bombs on Germany as the Luftwaffe dropped during its entire 1940-41 Blitz on Britain.
Hastings (2019)

#WW2

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People tend to find their own face quicker in a panorama of hundreds of other portraits when their photograph has been digitally enhanced to make them appear more attractive.
Storr (2013)
#YoureSoVain #MirrorMirror

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@JoeyMillar Ha! Pretty sure they brought in a rule against that in college football in the states

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Baker-Miller pink, also known as "Drunk tank pink", has been successfully deployed in jail environments as a means of calming violent prisoners.
~ Schauss (1979)

#Pink