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Interesting Question of the Day – 8 February 2017

February 8, 2017Uncategorizedfood & drink, interesting questions, science, triviaiqtrivia

On Monday we found out that you can’t burn calories just by digesting celery. It doesn’t have “negative calories.”

Ice water, on the other hand, does have negative calories. It has zero calories and your body will burn calories warming it to body temperature.

If you made no other changes to your diet, how many litres of 3 degree ice water would you have to drink to burn enough calories to lose 1kg of fat?

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Interesting Question of the Day – 6 February 2017

February 6, 2017Uncategorizedfood & drink, interesting questions, science, triviaiqtrivia

True or false. You can lose weight by eating nothing but celery, because a stalk of celery only contains six calories but it takes your body 10 calories to digest it.

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Interesting Question of the Day – 1 February 2017

February 1, 2017Uncategorizedculture, interesting questions, science, triviaiqtrivia

Why would births in cartoon universes be disproportionately by caesarean?

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Interesting Question of the Day – 23 January 2017

January 23, 2017Uncategorizedinteresting questions, science, triviaiqtrivia

This is Chicago Pile 1, the first nuclear reactor to go critical.

It produced enough electricity to do what?

Run a clothes dryer, a laptop computer, charge a mobile phone, or none of the above?

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Interesting Question of the Day – 16 January 2017

January 16, 2017Uncategorizedinteresting questions, science, triviaiqtrivia

If you were standing on boat holding a rock, then threw the rock in the lake and let it sink, would the water level of the lake go up, go down, or would it stay at the same level? (We’re assuming this is a closed system. Nothing is flowing into or out of the lake.)

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Interesting Question of the Day – 28 December 2016

December 28, 2016Uncategorizedinteresting questions, science, triviaiqtrivia

The cognitive bias in favour of things you made yourself is called the BLANK effect?

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Interesting Question of the Day – 12 December 2016

December 12, 2016Uncategorizedinteresting questions, science, triviaiqtrivia

Where are the outer boots Neil Armstrong wore when he walked on the moon in 1969?

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Interesting Question of the Day – 23 November 2016

November 23, 2016Uncategorizedinteresting questions, science, sport, triviaiqtrivia

On Monday we found out that a man has won the Man vs Horse Marathon twice since the race began in 1980.

man-horse-marathon-weather-trivia

On both of those occasions, was the weather hotter or cooler than usual?

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Interesting Question of the Day – 21 November 2016

November 21, 2016Uncategorizedinteresting questions, science, sport, triviaiqtrivia

The Man versus Horse Marathon is a 22 mile cross country race held annually in Wales since 1980.

man-horse-marathon-trivia

How many times has it been won by a human?

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Interesting Question of the Day – 11 October 2016

October 11, 2016Uncategorizedinteresting questions, music, science, triviaiqtrivia

Is it possibly to literally cry someone a river?

cry-me-a-river-trivia

Specifically, if everyone on earth cried heavily for 24 hours, would the volume of tears equal the discharge of the world’s smallest river?

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