Fact9:01PMMushrooms are more closely related to humans than to plants.Link to this itemShareSourceMore from @qikipedia
Fact7:01PMIn 1999, more than 3,000 people were hospitalised after tripping over a laundry basket.Link to this itemShareSourceMore from @qikipedia
Fact5:01PMCrop circles in Australia are caused by frenzied wallabies who get high in the poppy fields used to grow legal opium.Link to this itemShareSourceMore from @qikipedia
Topic4:01PMMimicsThe Superb Lyrebird is featured on the reverse side of the Australian 10 cent coin.Find out more at the QI EncyclopaediaLink to this itemShareSource
Fact3:01PMSt George is the patron saint of England, leprosy and syphilis.Link to this itemShareSourceMore from @qikipedia
Fact1:01PMThere are at least 600 men in the world with two penises.Link to this itemShareSourceMore from @qikipedia
Topic11:01AMAmazonsThe Amazon Molly is an all-female species of fish which reproduces by parthenogenesis (virgin birth).Find out more at the QI EncyclopaediaLink to this itemShareSource
Fact9:01PMIn the 17th century Ottoman Empire, drinking coffee was punishable by deathLink to this itemShareSourceMore from @qikipedia
Fact7:01PMPaper can only be recycled six times. After that, the fibres, are too weak to hold together.Link to this itemShareMore from @qikipedia
Fact5:01PMWithin 200 yards of the flat in Islington where George Orwell had the idea for 1984, there are now 32 CCTV cameras.Link to this itemShareSourceMore from @qikipedia
Topic4:01PMTeenagersHandprint analysis has shown that most cave paintings were done by teenage boys.Find out more at the QI EncyclopaediaLink to this itemShareSource
Fact3:01PM4,000 McDonald’s hamburgers, (as many as you could get from one cow) are eaten every minute.Link to this itemShareMore from @qikipedia
Topic11:01AMCentre of GravityThe Moon and the Earth both orbit a common centre of gravity located about 1000 miles below the surface of the Earth.Find out more at the QI EncyclopaediaLink to this itemShareSource
Fact9:01AMThe inventor of roller skates first demonstrated them by hurtling into a party while playing the violin and crashing into a huge mirror.Link to this itemShareSourceMore from @qikipedia
Fact9:01PMThe Sami people of northern Finland use a measure called Poronkusema: the distance a reindeer can walk before needing to urinate.Link to this itemShareSourceMore from @qikipedia
Fact7:01PMWhen Escoffier was head chef at the Carlton Hotel in London, he got his English clientele to eat frogs’ legs by slipping them on to the menu as Nymphs of the Dawn.Link to this itemShareMore from @qikipedia
Fact5:01PMAt the 2012 London Olympics, 55% of the athletes were found to have tooth decay.Link to this itemShareSourceMore from @qikipedia
Topic4:01PMNumbersA fragment from the Book of Revelations that was discovered in 2005, revealed that the original number of the beast was 616, not 666.Find out more at the QI EncyclopaediaLink to this itemShareSource
Fact3:01PMIf your stomach acid got on to your skin it would burn a hole in it.Link to this itemShareMore from @qikipedia
Fact1:01PMSudan is the only country that still has crucifixion as an official form of capital punishment.Link to this itemShareSourceMore from @qikipedia
Fact11:01AMRice Krispies in Germany go ‘Knisper! Knasper! Knusper!’Link to this itemShareSourceMore from @qikipedia
Topic11:01AMLobstersThere are about 50 species of lobster, including the hunchback locust, the velvet fan and the musical furry.Find out more at the QI EncyclopaediaLink to this itemShareSource
Fact9:01AM'Sprunt' is a 19th c Scottish word meaning '[of boys] to chase girls around the haystacks after dark'Link to this itemShareSourceMore from @qikipedia
Fact9:01PMJohn Wayne once won Lassie the Dog in a game of poker.Link to this itemShareSourceMore from @qikipedia
Fact5:01PMAnne, Duc de Montmorency (1493–1567), was a French general and politician. He was named after his mother, Anne Pot.Link to this itemShareSourceMore from @qikipedia
Topic4:01PMCaravaggioCaravaggio's style may have been how he actually saw the world because of an illness caused by excess adrenaline.Find out more at the QI EncyclopaediaLink to this itemShareSource
Fact3:01PMWord of the day: SNUDGE – to stride around looking terribly busy when in fact you’re doing nothing. Link to this itemShareMore from @qikipedia
