78 Quotes by John LLoyd

British spies stopped using semen as invisible ink because it began to smell if it wasn’t fresh.

Beijing, Seoul and Tokyo all mean ‘capital’ in their respective languages.

The Dyslexia Research Centre is in Reading.

The Republic of Ireland didn’t have postcodes until 2015.

1 in 50 Americans claim to have been abducted by aliens.

The Wars of the Roses weren’t called that. Sir Walter Scott invented the name four centuries after the conflict.

Babbage was a brilliant mathematician but found human beings difficult to deal with. His intolerance of street musicians led to an organized campaign against him: his London home in Portland Place was bombarded by noise at all hours and abusive signs were hung in local shops.

The one who is not dead still has a chance.

Sending a man to the Moon and finding Osama Bin Laden cost the US government about the same amount of time and money: ten years and $100 billion.