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The Lone Rangers strike again.

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Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry. TERRY PRATCHETT

The Chinese character biáng takes over 50 strokes to write. It describes a noodle dish. https://t.co/aBNhK7ebrt

Ever wondered why we say flip flop and not flop flip? In phrases made of repeated words that change the interior vowel, such as chit chat, dilly dally or bish bash bosh, the vowels almost always go in the order I then A then O (or I then A or O if there are only two words).

In 2010 Russell Kirsch, the inventor of the pixel, lamented his decision to make it square: “It was something very foolish that everyone in the world has been suffering from ever since.”

In 2014, construction workers at Victoria tube station dashed to supermarkets to buy as many bags of sugar as they could carry. They poured the sugar over a concrete spillage to slow down its drying time, allowing them to clear the damage and reopen the station within a night.

In the early 1900s the British Museum’s cat, Black Jack, was accidentally locked in the Reading Room and shredded the covers of rare and valuable bound newspapers. A 1964 pamphlet said “this brought down upon him the wrath of the officials, and he was banished from the Library”.

In 2016 Bill Gates worked with a perfume company to create a fragrance as much like a stinking toilet as possible. Next, they created scents that neutralised the first odour. These were used to improve public toilets.

Charles Earl Boles was an 1870s American stagecoach robber who left poems at his crime scenes, signing them “Black Bart”. One verse was: I’ve labored long and hard for bread, For honor, and for riches, But on my corns too long you’ve tread, You fine-haired sons of bitches.

It is illegal to own a rabbit in Queensland, Australia unless you can prove you are a practicing magician. Tonight at 9pm on @BBCTwo there's a brand new QI XL all about 'R-Animals', starring Sandi, Alan, Maggie Aderin-Pocock, @tomallencomedy and @EdGambleComedy! https://t.co/P8DShtNxV4

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