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A Quite Interesting Twitter feed from the team behind the BBC TV show QI. https://t.co/1JWvBwO1PN
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In the late 18th century, ‘you are a thief and a murderer and you have killed a baboon and stolen his face’ was a common phrase used to express contempt for someone.
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The word rooster was adopted by American puritans in the 18th century because they didn’t want to use the word cock.
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Word of the day: QUOBBLED – the wrinkled state of your fingers when they’ve been in water for too long.
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The book which first printed the nursery rhyme Baa Baa Black Sheep also contained ‘Piss a Bed, Piss a Bed, Barley Butt, Your Bum is so heavy, You can’t get up.'
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In 1731, Sister Mariana de Jesus, a Portuguese nun, was sentenced to six months silence for ogling a monk with a telescope and passing raunchy messages to him hidden in a pancake.
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The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago, the second best time is now. CHINESE PROVERB
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From the time it was discovered, to when it was demoted as a planet, Pluto had only completed a third of an orbit of the Sun.
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In what is the earliest known case of drug addiction, a 25,000 year old Indonesian skeleton’s teeth show he was sucking on psychoactive nuts every day.
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Word of the day: NILLIONAIRE - someone with no money.
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‘Is there any mice in your arse?’ was a 19th-century Scottish way of replying to someone who is referring to themselves as ‘we’.
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The medieval Venetian version of the phrase ‘I am your obedient servant’ was ‘sono vostro schiavo’, ‘I am your slave’, which with time was shortened to ‘schiavo’, then to ‘s-ciavo’, to ‘s-ciao’, and finally to ‘ciao’.
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The UN has voted to adopt a new world map which shows Africa to its true scale based on the Equal Earth Map. The only country to vote against it was the USA. https://t.co/O8DW0ApxJZ
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Saverland v. Newton (1837) is a British court case in which a man who attempted to kiss a woman without consent had half his nose bitten off. The judge ruled that ‘when a man kisses a woman against her will, she is fully entitled to bite his nose off, if she so pleases’.
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No one reads; if someone does read, they don't understand; if they understand, they immediately forget. STANISŁAW LEM
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Word of the Day: LANT - to add urine to ale.
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In Italian, a boom operator is called a giraffista. https://t.co/FLhsSrQ5Fi
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According to the official Vatican dictionary of modern Latin neologisms, ‘Lexicon Recentis Latinitatis’ (2020), Latin for ‘hot pants’ is ‘brevíssimae bracae femíneae’, which literally means ‘very short women’s trousers’.
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A Chinese phrase for doing something unnecessary is tuō kùzi fàngpì, which means to ‘take off your trousers to fart’.
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In a study, various AI models were told to complete a children’s story about different anthropomorphised animals with unstated gender. The models either avoided gendering the characters (57.2%) or made them male (40.6%). In only 2.2% stories did the characters became female.
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Word of the Day: NOCTUARY - a written account of what happens at night; the converse of diary.
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Having a younger brother or sister can increase your blood pressure by more than 5%.
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Phrase of the Day: HISTORICAL OVERDOSING (coined by Douglas Coupland) - to live in a period of time when too much seems to happen.
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A hospital in Salisbury has apologised to a patient for suspending an IV drip from a model skeleton after they ran out of stands.
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Children who do music classes do significantly better in Maths, English and Science than those who don’t. They do so well, they’re about an academic year ahead by the time they reach their final year of school.
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Zeus had five wives. One of them was his aunt, another was his sister and a third one he ate.
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Legally, ‘time immemorial’ refers to any time before 6 July 1189.
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Baby turtles call to each other while they’re still in their shells so that they all hatch at the same time.
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Decoy Font is a font designed to fool AI, which will read the clear message in the foreground (SORRY ROBOT), but miss the hidden message in the background (HAPPY HUMAN), squint to see. (Credit: MixFont) https://t.co/zk5qQhYuQw
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A MALAPHOR is when two metaphors are clumsily and incorrectly combined, such as 'It's as easy as riding a piece of cake' or 'We'll burn that bridge when we get to it'.
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A group of starfish is called a galaxy.
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Dibandingkan akun berukuran sama
59 postingan dari 90 hari terakhir, dibandingkan dengan rentang 1M–10M pengikut. tampil jauh melampaui audiensnya sendiri, dan audiens itu merespons.
Median tayangan33 191akun ini14 648median untuk 1M–10M
Jangkauan, %2.96%akun ini0.74%median untuk 1M–10M
Interaksi, %2.44%akun ini0.70%median untuk 1M–10M
| Metrik | Akun ini | Median untuk 1M–10M | Rasio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median tayangan per postingan | 33 191 | 14 648 | 2.27× |
| Jangkauan (tayangan ÷ pengikut) | 2.96% | 0.74% | 4.00× |
| Tingkat interaksi | 2.44% | 0.70% | 3.50× |
Akun lain pada rentang ini → Bandingkan dengan akun lain → Bagaimana tolok ukur ini disusun →
Growth & engagement
How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.
Views per post
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36.7K23 Sep
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Last 14 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.
Engagement rate per post
0.95%21 Sep
5.40%
2.61%22 Sep
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2.80%23 Sep
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2.94%24 Sep
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Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 1M–10M accounts is 0.70%.
What the audience does
Likes84.7%27 419 in total
Reposts6.8%2 211 in total
Replies1.7%563 in total
Quotes1.2%394 in total
Bookmarks5.5%1 777 in total
Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.
The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.
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