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QI = quite interesting - but quite wrong II from loiswakeman 908 days old
"The guillotine was invented in Halifax in Yorkshire in the 16th century. The French Revolution's Dr Guillotin did not invent the device; he merely ...
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eyeforinfo - spotting errors since 1604 from loiswakeman 924 days old
This entry will describe one of the earliest whoopsies I know about (even earlier than the (in)famous Wicked Bible of 1631, which instructed readers ...
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Wonky saying of the week from loiswakeman 973 days old
"Like Marie Antoinette, they want to have their cake and eat it" - Ed Vaizey MP, commenting on the Lib Dem policy on Trident on The Westminster Hour, ...
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Ballot or lottery? You decide from loiswakeman 985 days old
On the BBC Radio 4 Today programme there was a piece about using a lottery to select pupils for schools by the Labour-controlled council in Brighton ...
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QI = quite interesting - but quite wrong from loiswakeman 1000 days old
"Axolotl is an Aztec word. This is a species of salamander but its pale colour and external gills meant that when first discovered, it was thought to ...
