@maydont

Trivia nut, extreme swimmer, mathematician, science-fan, sceptic, traveler, father, musician, linguist, sport fanatic and spermologist. My comments are my own.

 Cape Town
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Joined February 2009
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The home of cricket Lords Cricket Ground in England is not named for the upper-class gentry who watched and supported the game, but instead it is eponymously named after Thomas Lord, an 18th Century bowler who bought some land for a cricket field. #trivia
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A little reduced but fascinating nonetheless.
Josh Barzon
@JoshuaBarzonSep 25
The Ethnic Composition of Africa
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Never has there been a more appropriate ring tone….
Jamison Daniel
@AntiquarianMuseAug 22
RFK Jr. discussing autism conspiracy theories while his phone goes off with a literal quack ringtone. You can’t write this shit 😂😂😂

Quack

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The cheese 🧀 capital of Turkey 🇹🇷 is called Kars. #trivia
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6/7 🤯 🇪🇸 Seis/Siete 🇫🇷 Six/Sept 🇮🇹 Sei/Sette 🇵🇹 Seis/Sete 🇪🇸 Sis/Set 🇷🇴 Șase/Șapte 🇬🇧 Six/Seven 🇩🇰 Seks/Syv 🇳🇴 Seks/Syv 🇩🇪 Sechs/Sieben 🇸🇪 Sex/Sju 🇳🇱 Ses/Sewe 🇸🇦 Sitta/Sab'a 🇲🇹 Sitta/Sebgħa 🇮🇱 Shesh/Sheva 🇰🇪 Sita/Saba 🇸🇴 Sixid/Setti 🇮🇪 Sé/Seacht 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Sia/Seachd 🇿🇦 Ses/Sewe 1/2
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🇮🇳 Marathi Sahā/Sāt 🇮🇳 Konkani So/Sāt 🇮🇳 Sanskrit Sas/Sapta 🇿🇦 Afrikaans: Ses/Sewe 🇿🇦 Sepedi: Selela/Supa 🇵🇱 Szesc/Siedem 🇷🇺 🇺🇦 Shest/Sem 🇨🇿 🇸🇰 🇭🇷 🇧🇦 🇸🇮 🇧🇬 Sest/Sedm 🇱🇹 Sesi/Sptyni 🇱🇻 Sesi/Septini 🇳🇬 Igbo iSii/aSaa 🇬🇭 Akan nSia / nSon 🇨🇩Kikongo Sambanu / nSambwadi
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Arigato 🇯🇵 @JP_emb_inSA Japanese Embassy in SA.
Embassy of Japan in South Africa/在南アフリカ共和国日本国大使館
@JP_emb_inSAJun 23
Can you solve @SundayTimesZA' 7 June BrainTest? Find the answers in the comments.
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Over the last 6 months, 99% of accepted refugees in the USA were South Africans (mostly Afrikaners). It’s almost as if Americans finally realised that Biltong is far superior to Jerky, but needed someone to make it.
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Twins can be born out of order thanks to daylight saving time! In 2016 California, twins Samuel & Ronan Peterson were born minutes apart but officially it’s the other way round due to the clocks going back between births. Who gets first-born rights? #trivia
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RIP Chuck Norris. I spent last night telling my teens all about Chuck Norris. I then read them 20 Chuck Norris jokes. None of the landed. Sadly they will never appreciate Walker Texas Ranger.
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Psychoanalysis is made up of two ancient Greek (in origin) words. Analysis is “release” and Psyche loosely means butterfly 🦋 So psychoanalysis means “releasing the butterflies”. #trivia
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Weird how right now Syria and Yemen feel like the safest countries in the Middle East.
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The Southern African bontebok. Now 4000 specimens across reserves and game farms, was once reduced to a population of just 20 in the 1800s. Maybe Conservation’s most remarkable stories (alongside the golden lion tamarind in Brazil). @WWF #trivia
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600 Boers went to Patagonia 🇦🇷 in 1902. They adapted their Afrikaans with some interesting changes: Airport lugawe - vliegtuigstasie Teacher onderwyser - leermeester Snow sneeu - kapok Bakkie - camión Surgeon chirurg - operasiedokter Regering- goewerment #trivia
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Apparently the first professional American Football 🏈 player was named Pudge Heffelfinger #trivia
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Mayonnaise is named after (kind of) Hannibal’s 🐘 bro Mago. He lost a battle and fled to the Minorca where he named a city after himself. The British🇬🇧 captured &renamed it Port Mahon. The French🇫🇷then captured it. A French chef renamed his oil and eggs sauce mahonnaise. #trivia
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The two Dennis the Menace comic strips, one from the US and one from the UK, were developed independently (and unaware of the other) and were published on the same day: 12 March 1951. #trivia
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Edwin Booth 🎭 - one of the greatest actors of his generation - once saved the life of Abraham Lincoln’s 🎩 only child, Robert Lincoln, who fell onto a railway 🚃 track. A few years later Edwin’s estranged brother, John Wilkes Booth, would assassinate Abraham Lincoln. #trivia
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Wondering about all those clever Rhetorical tricks used by Canadian 🇨🇦 PM Mark Carney? This website lists them, with examples from one of the best in the game: Winston Churchill. turnerink.co.uk/word-stuff/r…

To Jaw-Jaw: Rhetorical Techniques used by Winston Churchill - Turner Ink Copywriting Blog

We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end....anaphora and other rhetorical techniques used by Winston Churchill

turnerink.co.uk
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The music video for Britney Spears’ “Baby One More Time” was shot at the school where “Grease” was filmed. #trivia
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