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Bricklehampton is the longest place name in the UK with no repeated letters.

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The second man to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel, Bobby Leach, survived the fall but later died as a result of slipping on a piece, of orange peel.

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Mustard

It's traditional for German brides to sew mustard seeds into the hem of their wedding dresses to assure their dominance in the household.

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All blue-eyed people are mutants. The first ones appeared as recently as 5,000 years ago.

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As it grows, sweetcorn makes a squeaking noise like two balloons rubbing against each other.

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The English word ‘squirrel’ is particularly difficult for Germans to pronounce.

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Premature Burial

Modern safety coffin designs have included heart monitors, breathing apparatus and even video games.

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Only 35% of the average person’s Twitter followers are actual people.

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The first documented blood transfusion took place in 1492, when Pope Innocent VIII was given the blood of three ten-year-old boys.

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Coral reefs make up only 1% of the ocean floor, but are home to 25% of all ocean life.

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Alfred Hitchcock

The Hitchcock film North By Northwest is misnamed; no such point of the compass exists.

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One third of Russians believe that the Sun revolves around the Earth.

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In 80% of US presidential elections the taller candidate has won.

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Tiramisu means ‘pick me up’ in Italian.

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Hats

A good Panama hat should be able to be rolled up, passed through a napkin ring and still be re-shaped perfectly.

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The NASA Vehicle Assembly Building is so big it has its own weather, rain clouds form inside it on humid days.

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Stephen Hawking was born exactly 300 years, to the day, after Galileo died

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Valentine's Day

Valentine’s cards temporarily fell out of fashion in Britain in the 1890s because they had become too indecent.

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Male Dayak fruit bats lactate.

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The Nazis made it illegal on pain of death for apes to give the ‘Heil Hitler’ salute.

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Easter Island

DNA testing established that the Easter Islanders came from Polynesia.

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Acrochordon n. A wart that hangs down like a string.

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Only 35% of the average person’s Twitter followers are actual people.

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Although Shakespeare’s works run to more than a million words, only 14 exist in his own handwriting: 12 of them are his signatures and the other two are ‘by’ and ‘me’.

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Dung

You can tell where a cow pat has been for at least a year afterwards as the grass is much more lush.

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Craters on Mars under 60 kilometres in diameter are named after towns on Earth with populations under 100,000.

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Zeppo Marx, the youngest of the Marx Brothers, designed the clamping device that held the atom bombs in place before they were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

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If you forget the tilde (~) over an N when asking how old someone is in Spanish, you will end up asking them how many anuses they have.

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Humour

Less than 20% of conversational laughter is generated by an actual joke or humorous comment.

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QI Daily | 19 October 2017

Mustard

Premature Burial

QI Daily | 17 October 2017

Alfred Hitchcock

Hats

QI Daily | 16 October 2017

Valentine's Day

Easter Island

QI Daily | 15 October 2017

Dung

Humour