
@qikipedia elf, @museumofcurios, researcher & writer. here for a long time, not a good time
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What a fun afternoon I had yesterday, welcoming two of the lovely @qikipedia Elves for a dig around #TheEvelynGlennieCollection! Watch this space… I wonder what they unearthed…

ALT A colour photo of (left to right) Lydia, Evelyn, and Leying. Lydia has brown hair which she wears down, and is wearing a scientific / space based motif a-line dress, with black tights and black shoes. Evelyn is wearing her grey hair loose, and has a multi-toned brown, cream, grey and pink floral top and black trousers. Leying also has her long brown hair worn loose, an is earing a black jumpsuit. All three are facing the camera and smiling broadly, whilst stood in front of blue shelves which host a huge array of percussion instruments as part of The Evelyn Glennie Collection.
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A London tennis club attempted to train dogs to replace ball boys and girls at Wimbledon. The trial failed because the dogs didn't want to give the balls back.
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We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for, I don’t know. JOHN FOSTER HALL
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The ancient Egyptian calendar consisted of 12, 30-day months, with five extra days added on at the end for celebrating their Gods’ birthday parties.
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In the eighteenth century, ladies would enter Bath’s Roman Baths fully clothed and were given a little floating plate for their valuables.
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In 2023, a tomato went missing aboard the ISS for more than eight months. When it was found NASA announced ‘Our good friend [astronaut] Frank Rubio… has been blamed… for eating the tomato. But we can exonerate him’ and described the tomato as ‘slightly squished’.
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There is a mysterious blob underneath the Pacific Ocean over 200 times as tall as Mount Everest. It’s called ‘Jason’.
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A standard breakfast for Queen Victoria was mutton chops, sausages and a steak. She suffered from chronic flatulence.
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Paul McCartney missed his first ever scheduled gig with John Lennon because he was away at Scout Camp.
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my husband is looking at jobs and this one through a hiring firm is "withholding the name of the company" for some reason but wants someone familiar with "chocolate technology" who is willing to move to Hershey, PA lmao
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A 1929 research paper titled ‘Women in Odd and Unusual Fields of Work’ reported that women were now to be found in such jobs as owner of a professional baseball team, cake decorator and ‘head of a gravel company’.
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In the 2010s, the copper water pipes in new houses in the Swedish town of Anderslöv caused residents’ hair to turn green.
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Mayonnaise has unique elastic properties which make it ideal for using in nuclear fusion experiments.
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Since the first event in 1970, only eight Glastonbury festivals have ever been entirely free of rain.










