QI : Fact Of The Day

[Bugloss2009]

thought i'd share today's

The word 'adolescent' comes from one of two Latin verbs spelt adoleo. One means 'to make bigger' and the other means 'to emit a smell'.

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[Bugloss2009]

[caroline7758]

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[manicscousers]

haha, so true  ;D ;D

[Kea]

Yep...my big hairy adolescent is home from 4 weeks with his Dad...and he pongs and so do his clothes...however it's because his father doesn't clean his house and the smell is 10 years of mould.
Not surprisingly he has some mystery illness too.

[antipodes]

They must have been inside my son's room...
He is 13 and now he is taller than me by a few inches! he's a nice lad, but he has started sleeping at bizarre times, getting all spotty and generally talking as if parts of his brain were controlled by a baboon. Roll on the next decade!!!

[PurpleHeather]

I wonder what the word

antediluvian

breaks down as, or dare I ask?

[Obelixx]

Literally?  Before the flood so pre Noah's Ark and so on.

Not something to worry about here.  Last night we had our first decent rain since July 15th and that was  the first since May.    My garden is very grateful and would like a bit more.

[Bugloss2009]

there was  a kids say the funniest thing.....

small child - Grandad, were you in Noah's Ark?

Grandad - No, of course not!

small child - then why didn't you drown?

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