BBC’ Knowledge Hopes to Avert Idiocracy

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With the tone of a 42Below commercial and the logic of If You Give A Mouse A Cookie, this new commercial from the BBC which promotes its Knowledge program is a panoply of random facts such as the fact pencils can dram a line 56 kilometers long, a full moon is nine times brighter than a half moon and a snail can sleep for three years. Who knew?

The campaign comes from the appropriately named Three Drunk Monkeys

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Steve Hall

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