{"id":9967,"date":"2014-02-12T16:24:42","date_gmt":"2014-02-12T16:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=9967"},"modified":"2015-01-28T13:37:27","modified_gmt":"2015-01-28T13:37:27","slug":"feb-blogathon-1214-its-all-good-harmless-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=9967","title":{"rendered":"Blogathon 12\/14 \u2013 it&#8217;s all good harmless fun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love\u00a0the amazing source of information that\u00a0The QI Elves\u00a0(@qikipedia &#8211; sorry if you&#8217;re not on the Twitter) share with us.<\/p>\n<p>I spent this lunchtime amazing colleagues with\u00a0snippets provided by The QI Elves*, such as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The average winter temperature in Sochi is 3.4c higher than the UK winter average<\/li>\n<li>In the 1904 Olympics, George Eyser won 3 gold, 2 silver and a bronze medal in gymnastics, even though he had a wooden leg<\/li>\n<li>Backpfeifengesicht is German for &#8216;a face that makes you want to hit it&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>There is a Causeway in Cambridge with three signs because the local council can&#8217;t decide where to put the apostrophe (Worts, Wort&#8217;s, Worts&#8217;)<\/li>\n<li>George Washington&#8217;s dentures were made from a combination of hippopotamus teeth, ivory, horse teeth, human teeth, gold, and lead<\/li>\n<li>The word &#8216;jumentous&#8217; means &#8216;resembling horse urine&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>Peroni beer is\u00a0bottled horse urine<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>*one of these snippets may be made up<\/p>\n<p>There are not many pieces of random information that I carry about with me, ready to display my erudition, but I do love to collect extremely odd pieces of knowledge.<\/p>\n<p>That, for example\u2026<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Films on IMDB are rated out of 10, but the film This Is Spinal Tap is rated out of 11 (think about it)<\/li>\n<li>Marty Wilde had a massive European hit in 1968 (8 years after his daughter Kim was born) with a song about a small Welsh market town (Abergavenny)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>But this has made me wonder\u2026<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s your favourite piece of information? What&#8217;s the one piece of trivia that you bring out, when you have the opportunity?<\/p>\n<p>Come on, don&#8217;t be shy. I&#8217;m not going to tell anyone&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love\u00a0the amazing source of information that\u00a0The QI Elves\u00a0(@qikipedia &#8211; sorry if you&#8217;re not on the Twitter) share with us. I spent this lunchtime amazing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}