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TROLL once meant "to sing loudly and clearly" - as in, "to troll the ancient Yuletide carol".

Danish energy firm Orsted announced that the Hornsea 2 offshore wind farm off the coast of Scotland has produced its first energy. Find out more at https://t.co/DtePkebCdx 🚀 #Engineering https://t.co/tJVunstXrY

ice skating path in Canada

It's the stuff of science fiction but it's real. 🧐 #engineering https://t.co/sGLDnfPjj9

If you didn't catch it on Monday, our new Christmas special is available to stream now on iPlayer! #QI https://t.co/GojEZcD6N2

Taste the future of TV? 🧐 #engineering https://t.co/8eclvxqwk9

Let's nuke our way to the stars! 🚀 #engineering https://t.co/Gf1jfFr81c

In 1956, Harper Lee's friends gave her a full year's salary as a Christmas gift, so that she could take time off to focus on writing. She used that time to write To Kill A Mockingbird, which has now sold more than 40 million copies.

Launching a rocket successfully into space represents one of the peaks of human engineering. But they don’t always go according to plan. Here’s how rocket launches can go wrong. 🚀 #engineering https://t.co/RfT4C3veBP

My mother works at a veterans home. One of the residents creates model airplanes using discarded razors. https://t.co/JAL6NKwsXS

Human trial data expected later this month. 💉 #engineering https://t.co/zU5XNaNWNC

Every 25 December in Chumbivilcas Province, Peru, residents go to the centre of town to have a communal fistfight. Residents claim it is cathartic. Afterwards, fighters are encouraged to drink away the pain of their injuries.

Over 300 million dollars earmarked for developing a demonstrator. ✈️ #engineering https://t.co/cZaFYa7u9Z

TIL that smoking dead scorpions to get high is a practice in certain regions of Pakistan, with most users mixing dried dead scorpions with either tobacco or hash, and that the high lasts for almost 10 hours.

Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft, thinks that we could be entering the worst part of the pandemic as the threat of COVID-19 due to the Omicron variant looms large over yet another holiday season. Find out more at https://t.co/VyNLnx014X 🚀 #Engineering https://t.co/Pke16CyQP5