Fact8:01PMFor 500 years from the 13th century, 70% of Englishmen were called Robert, John, Thomas, Richard or William.Link to this itemShareSourceMore from @qikipedia
Fact6:01PMLinnaeus named the banana Musa paradisiaca because he thought it might have been the forbidden fruit of the Garden of Eden.Link to this itemShareMore from @qikipedia
Topic5:01PMGhengis Khan'Genghis Khan' was his title, not his name. As a boy, he was called Temujin ('iron one').Find out more at the QI EncyclopaediaLink to this itemShareSource
Fact4:01PMThe word ‘time’ is the most commonly used noun in English.Link to this itemShareMore from @qikipedia
Fact2:01PMStrictly speaking, the plural of dwarf is dwarrows.Link to this itemShareSourceMore from @qikipedia
Topic12:01PMShoppingThe word 'emacity' means a fondness for shopping.Find out more at the QI EncyclopaediaLink to this itemShareSource
Fact12:01PMWamblecropt is a 17th-century word for ‘indigestion’.Link to this itemShareSourceMore from @qikipedia
Fact10:01AMIn 1517, Richard Foxe, the blind bishop of Winchester, founded Corpus Christi College, Oxford. On his first visit to the new college, he was led twice round the main quad to make it seem bigger than it really was.Link to this itemShareMore from @qikipedia
Fact8:01PMJoseph Conrad died leaving an unfinished novel called Suspense.Link to this itemShareSourceMore from @qikipedia
Fact6:01PMIt is illegal to wear a bikini in Barcelona, except on the beach.Link to this itemShareMore from @qikipedia
Topic5:01PMPalm-ReadingTyromancy is supposedly divination by the patterns formed by the coagulation of cheese.Find out more at the QI EncyclopaediaLink to this itemShareSource
Fact2:01PMIn 2013, a PayPal computer error briefly made a man in Pennsylvania the richest person in the world.Link to this itemShareSourceMore from @qikipedia
Topic12:01PMLinguisticsA word like 'thingy' or 'whatchamacallit' is called a cadigan, or a placeholder name.Find out more at the QI EncyclopaediaLink to this itemShareSource
Fact12:01PMThe Archbishop of Manila from 1974–2003 was called Cardinal Sin.Link to this itemShareMore from @qikipedia
Fact10:01AMPregnant women are 42% more likely to be in a car crash but less likely to die than men of the same age.Link to this itemShareMore from @qikipedia
Fact8:01PMIf you hold your breath and put your face in cold water, your heart will immediately slow down by 25%.Link to this itemShareSourceMore from @qikipedia
Fact6:01PMDuring the Vietnam War, each US soldier took 40 amphetamine tablets a year.Link to this itemShareSourceMore from @qikipedia
Topic5:01PMMary Queen of ScotsMary’s last words before the axe fell: ‘Into thy hands, O Lord, I commend my spirit’.Find out more at the QI EncyclopaediaLink to this itemShareSource
Fact4:01PMFemale sharks can store sperm for four years before using it to fertilise their eggs. Link to this itemShareSourceMore from @qikipedia
Fact2:01PMZischeln is a useful German verb meaning ‘to whisper angrily’.Link to this itemShareSourceMore from @qikipedia
Topic12:01PMVacuumsOne of the first vacuum cleaners was invented as a door-to-door service in 1903. It was horse-drawn.Find out more at the QI EncyclopaediaLink to this itemShareSource
Fact12:01PMIn the first month of its life, a silkworm puts on 10,000 times its birth weight.Link to this itemShareSourceMore from @qikipedia
Fact10:01AMGift cards worth £240 million go unredeemed in Britain each year.Link to this itemShareSourceMore from @qikipedia
Fact8:01PMThe Japanese sleep two hours a night less than the Chinese.Link to this itemShareSourceMore from @qikipedia
Fact6:01PMThe seventh most common sentence in The Hunger Games trilogy is ‘I swallowed hard.’Link to this itemShareSourceMore from @qikipedia
Topic5:01PMGamblingLas Vegas is no longer the largest gambling centre in the world; Macau surpassed its gambling revenues in 2006.Find out more at the QI EncyclopaediaLink to this itemShareSource
Fact4:01PM12% of a sloth’s energy is used to climb up and down trees to go to the lavatory.Link to this itemShareSourceMore from @qikipedia
Fact2:01PM90% of the thermostats in American offices don’t work.Link to this itemShareMore from @qikipedia
Topic12:01PMIcelandIcelandic is the oldest language in Europe. The Icelandic for 'sleep' is sofa.Find out more at the QI EncyclopaediaLink to this itemShareSource
