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Not a Quite Interesting Twitter feed from the team behind the BBC TV show QI. No animals were harmed in making these tweets, but many facts were butchered.

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A short @notqikipedia Best Of! Featuring tweets old and new, as determined by your Likes and Retweets:

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Painters use brighter colours if they've lived through a heat wave, or the art supplies place has them in the clearance sale.

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In the US, ground pepper can contain up to 475 insect fragments per 50 grammes. Any more than this and it is sold as “A secret blend of herbs and spices.”

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When people can't see their skin, they are very bad at knowing if they have goosebumps or not. Though it’s of little concern now they have a working invisibility serum.

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Your hands are heavier than you think they are. No, even heavier than that. No, more. Heavier. Heavier. Keep trying. No, much heavier. C’mon. Heavier still. Ugh, look, we’ll just leave you to it.

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Before cane sugar was introduced to Europe, food was often sweetened with bees.

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Every day, about three hundred million Americans believe they are cleverer than they are.

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There is a gene associated specifically with falling for the schoolyard trick, “smell my cheese”.

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Word of the Day: ABULIA - an inability to spell indecisive.

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In 1907, an American magazine suggested that drinking beer was a good way to get drunk.

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Word of the Day: CREPITUS - the medical term for an addiction to pancakes.

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Every colony of seals has a designated compliance officer; the seal of approval.

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A single town in China produces one half of the world's socks. A global logistical nightmare could be avoided if they made them in pairs.

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Despite the quality of their produce, Crocodiles don’t actually wear shoes or belts, or carry handbags.

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H. G. Wells’ real name was Wishing.

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On February 18, 1986, a Californian judge, annoyed by rain, bought an umbrella.

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Cheetahs chirp and fly.

Oh no, wait, that’s birds.

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Word of the Day: WAIT-GLEED - one who sits lazily watching the trash-fire that is his employer’s latest transformational change project.

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A 2017 issue of the comic book Asterix featured an antagonist called Weetabix, who was defeated with warm milk.

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Word of the Day: SYNTHESPIAN – one who pretends to play the keyboard.

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Almost everyone with British ancestry is descended from Britons.