@qikipedia elf, @museumofcurios, researcher & writer. here for a long time, not a good time

United Kingdom
Joined August 2010
Can you tell us how he died, where, and why?
Farewell to Suleiman al-Obeid, the 'Palestinian Pelé'. A talent who gave hope to countless children, even in the darkest of times.
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Megan Baldwin has sent us this video of the fire at the BIC this evening.
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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…
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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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wearing this to my email job
Caitlin Clark’s shirt: “I DESERVE NBA MONEY” 👀
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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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One in eight Britons think it is acceptable to have carpet in a bathroom.
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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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History teaches, but it has no pupils. ANTONIO GRAMSCI
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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.
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In 1864, thousands of people tore a hot air balloon to shreds in Leicester’s Victoria Park, because it was not as large or impressive as they had been promised. The citizens of Leicester temporarily earned the nickname ‘Balloonatics’.
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