78 Quotes by John LLoyd

In May 2014, the Moon had faster broadband than most of rural Britain.

Margaret Thatcher was part of the team that invented Mr Whippy ice cream.

What is literally the most misused word in the English language? The word ‘literally’ has been used to mean its opposite for over 200 years.

The world’s population spends 500,000 hours a day typing Internet security codes.

J. M. Barrie founded a celebrity cricket team with Arthur Conan Doyle, H. G. Wells, Jerome K. Jerome, G. K. Chesterton, A. A. Milne, Rudyard Kipling and P. G. Wodehouse.

Misophonia n. Irrational rage and terror caused by the sound of people eating.

Information is fleeting. Human records are broken; new particles are discovered; fresh historical documents come to light. Dinosaurs turn out not to be giant grey iguanas after all, but multicoloured feathery proto-birds of all shapes and sizes. Right now, even the daddy of all facts, the Big Bang theory, is looking wobbly.

These are my confessions, and if in them I say nothing, it is because I have nothing to say.

The boa constrictor is the only living animal whose common name is exactly the same as its scientific name.