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This is a list of Ig Nobel Prize winners from 1991 to the present day. [1]A parody of the Nobel Prizes, the Ig Nobel Prizes are awarded each year in mid-September, around the time the recipients of the genuine Nobel Prizes are announced, for ten achievements that "first make people laugh, and then make them think".
Pointless topology: Not as useless as it sounds. Potato paradox: If potatoes consisting of 99% water dry so that they are 98% water, they lose 50% of their weight. Ramanujan summation: What do you get when you add all positive integers, up to infinity? You get a negative fraction. Schizophrenic number: Can numbers have mental disorders? Sexy prime
2. Relatives. Mat Osman (brother) Richard Thomas Osman (born 28 November 1970) is an English author, television presenter, producer, novelist, and comedian. He is the creator and former co-presenter of the BBC One television quiz show Pointless. [ 1] He has presented the BBC Two quiz shows Two Tribes and Richard Osman's House of Games, and been ...
One curious user on Reddit asked the community what their favorite useless fact is, and the answers are pretty interesting. In case you wanted to know what key a toilet flush is in:
Pointless is a British television quiz show produced by Banijay subsidiary Remarkable Entertainment for the BBC hosted by Alexander Armstrong.In each episode, four teams of two contestants attempt to find correct but obscure answers to four rounds of general knowledge questions, with the winning team eligible to compete for the show's cash jackpot.
Cotton Swabs "Yes, they're useful for everything from makeup to cleaning your ears (even though you're not supposed to do that) but there's no need to buy the ones made with cotton," Ramhold said.
The larger Sunday crossword, which appears in The New York Times Magazine, is an icon in American culture; it is typically intended to be a "Thursday-plus" in difficulty. [6] The standard daily crossword is 15 by 15 squares, while the Sunday crossword measures 21 by 21 squares.
Alexander Armstrong. Alexander Henry Fenwick Armstrong (born 2 March 1970) is an English actor, comedian, radio personality, television presenter and singer. He is the host of the BBC One game show Pointless, and is a weekday morning-show presenter on Classic FM . Armstrong is a member of the comedy duo Armstrong and Miller.