Volodymyr Ostrovsky

@qikipedia @NPCUkrenergo More cats:

Ukraine’s Ministry of Energy informs people about peak electricity hours, when they need to reduce power consumption to avoid blackouts, by publishing power consumption graphs about a cat called Graph. [📷: @NPCUkrenergo; h/t @VlOstrovskyi]

At the recent World Dragon Boat Racing Championships, the Ukrainian team came sixth out of nine in the 2000 m race despite the fact that their boat went underwater 200 metres before the finish line. (h/t @VlOstrovskyi)

@AntonPepper В автора першого коментаря птахи проживають більш цікаве життя, ніж більшість з нас.

🤬 Безліч людей все ще обожнює всраті балкони. На мене стільки хейту давно не виливалося) А я сказав у відео на ютубі банальну річ - робити хєрові балкони це погано! Але людям пофігу на естетику, людям ліньки прибирати)))))))) реально ж пишуть!

@qikipedia youtu.be/w-kRCf1e5Tk

@AntonPepper Навіть якщо на шоу прийде Зеленський з написом "Я Зеленський" на весь тулуб, хтось напише "Що це за ноунейм?")

Коментарі "що це за ноунейм на ХтоЗнаШоу" залишайте під новим відео!) 💟 Залітайте на канал: @Xtoznasho/videos" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">youtube.com/@Xtoznasho/vid… Я так розумію, що "живого" мене більшість то і не бачила, бо на ютубчику то все одно ж певний формат. Раптом комусь буде цікаво!

@yake_konchene @IIISeRgAnTIII @SerhiiMoose @Ukrostap В нас зовсім інші формулювання питань, ми не вживаємо форми типу "назвіть ЙОГО")

@IIISeRgAnTIII @SerhiiMoose @Ukrostap Муса

Всупереч стереотипам про сало, старі джерела стверджують, що найпоширенішою закускою і основною вуличною їжею на ярмарках був ВІН. Назвіть ЙОГО.

To make the war less visible and traumatising for the small children of Kyiv, a local concrete manufacturer and a children’s charity have turned some of the military roadblocks in the city into fairy-tale characters. (Images: childrenheroes.org/en/; h/t @VlOstrovskyi)

@qikipedia This one is one of the best:

@qikipedia And this hobbit house is a bomb shelter at the Christmas fair:

@nosuchthing The first Christmas tree balls were made in a factory that produced prosthetic eyes.

Hey guys. We’re looking for Christmas facts. Anyone got anything good?

We’ve teamed up with some friends in Kyiv, and created a quiz on an app called ‘The Game’. You can play for free, but we’d encourage you to donate to the official charity helping to rebuild Ukraine if you enjoy it and have some spare change. Details below…

Our new charity game barely scratches the surface of the endless universe of fascinating facts from the fantastic @nosuchthing podcast, but it is still quite interesting! Play The Game, support @U24_gov_ua 🇺🇦, and listen to the QI Elves' podcast!: linktr.ee/thegameua

Thank you for your work and help!

We are happy to announce our new free game we have made based on material from the brilliant @PublicDomainRev in support of @united24_gov_ua. Play and donate now! linktr.ee/thegameua

🇺🇦 is one step closer to the 🇪🇺. But we still have a long way to go, a lot to defend and rebuild. Here’s a short charity game about the #EU in support of @U24_gov_ua charity fund. Android tinyurl.com/TheGAMEua 🍏 tinyurl.com/iTheGAMEua 🕸️ thegameua.com #united24

During the plague of 1630, some citizens of Milan took pistols with them when going outside so that others would keep proper distance. (h/t @VlOstrovskyi)

In 1977, a 17-year-old chess player named Joe Hayden challenged 180 people to a simultaneous game. Of the 20 people who showed up, Joe lost to 18, including a 7-year-old boy. He won only two games, one of them against his mum. (h/t @VlOstrovskyi)

For Star Trek (2009), the sound department emulated the classic swoosh of the USS Enterprise door by using the sound of a toilet flush on a Russian train. (h/t @VlOstrovskyi)

This Sunday, at 6 p.m. (London time) — a global online mind game for people of logic and wit, in six languages simultaneously! The English version: open-quiz.com/app/?who=reg&q…