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11 Oct, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Today's #quizzytime: What If I told you that there is a 3 letter word which you have been pronouncing wrong all your life? The inventor wrote the pronunciation in the report where he coined it...but we all ignored it. And yes you have certainly said it.

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we will be taking 'gif' off the table. Not the correct answer
Ans: UFO (yoo-fo). Edward J. Ruppelt coined the term in his book 'The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects'. "Obviously the term “flying saucer” is misleading when applied to objects of every conceivable shape and performance....
"For this reason the military prefers the more general, if less colorful, name: unidentified flying objects. UFO (pronounced Yoo-fo) for short."
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Today's #quizzytime: A bodyguard left the man he was guarding and went to a bar to get a drink because he was bored. The man got shot a few minutes later. Who was this bodyguard?

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Today's #quizzytime: In 2014, the US government unintentionally kick-started a man's modelling career. How?

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Today's #quizzytime: What sound is highly effective in scaring away Somalian pirates?

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