Fact6:01PM46% of American adults believe that the world is less than 10,000 years old.Link to this itemShareSourceMore from @qikipedia
Topic5:01PMHipposA fully grown hippo can easily outrun a man.Find out more at the QI EncyclopaediaLink to this itemShareSource
Fact4:01PMThe world’s largest iceberg set off from Antarctica in 2000. It was larger than Jamaica and parts of it still haven’t melted.Link to this itemShareSourceMore from @qikipedia
Topic12:01PMJellyfishThe sting of a jellyfish comes from specialised cells in the skin of its tentacles called cnidocytes - literally ‘nettle-jars’.Find out more at the QI EncyclopaediaLink to this itemShareSource
Fact10:01AMThe universe is expanding at 230 miles a second.Link to this itemShareSourceMore from @qikipedia
Fact8:01PMSome blue butterfly caterpillars mimic red ant larvae so well that the ants take them to their nest, feed and care for them until they pupate.Link to this itemShareSourceMore from @qikipedia
Fact6:01PMThe chairman of a company is four times more likely to be a psychopath than the doorman.Link to this itemShareSourceMore from @qikipedia
Topic5:01PMPenisesMale Guinea baboons ritualised greeting involves fiddling with each other's genitals.Find out more at the QI EncyclopaediaLink to this itemShareSource
Fact4:01PMIn New Zealand, snakes of any kind are illegal.Link to this itemShareSourceMore from @qikipedia
Fact2:01PMDiagnosed with pleurisy, Sir Robert Chesebrough, the inventor of Vaseline, decided to coat himself, in his product from head to foot. He survived and lived to be 96.Link to this itemShareMore from @qikipedia
Topic12:01PMInvisibilityIn Greek and Roman mythology agate was supposed to confer invisibility, and to turn an enemy's sword upon himself.Find out more at the QI EncyclopaediaLink to this itemShareSource
Fact10:01AMAs an apple falls to Earth, the Earth falls very, very slightly towards the apple.Link to this itemShareSourceMore from @qikipedia
Fact8:01PMMore than a third of the world’s smokers are Chinese.Link to this itemShareSourceMore from @qikipedia
Fact6:01PMA ‘googolplex’ is a number so vast it can’t be written down: there’s not enough room in the universe for all the zeros.Link to this itemShareSourceMore from @qikipedia
Topic5:01PMMarriageDuring Lord Byron's brief, disastrous marriage, he never ate with his wife as he claimed he could not bear to see women eat.Find out more at the QI EncyclopaediaLink to this itemShareSource
Fact2:01PMAlan Turing, the father of computer science, chained his mug to a radiator, to stop anyone else at work from using it.Link to this itemShareSourceMore from @qikipedia
Fact12:01PMFrance has 36,782 mayors, five of whom are mayors of villages that ceased to exist 92 years ago.Link to this itemShareMore from @qikipedia
Topic12:01PMFirefightersPliny the Younger’s request to form a fire brigade of 150 men was denied by the Emperor Trajan.Find out more at the QI EncyclopaediaLink to this itemShareSource
Fact10:01AMSpanish police are called smurfs because they wear pale-blue hats.Link to this itemShareSourceMore from @qikipedia
Fact8:01PMWord of the day: NOBBLER (18th century) – someone employed to strike inattentive members of a church congregation on the head with a stick. Link to this itemShareMore from @qikipedia
Fact6:01PMThe crunch of a crisp or an apple in your mouth is a mini sonic boom.Link to this itemShareSourceMore from @qikipedia
Topic5:01PMBedsThe bedframe didn’t appear until the 14th century.Find out more at the QI EncyclopaediaLink to this itemShareSource
Fact4:01PMPolo mints release light when you snap them.Link to this itemShareSourceMore from @qikipedia
Fact2:01PMThere are more pigs in China than in the next 43 pork-producing countries combined.Link to this itemShareSourceMore from @qikipedia
Topic12:01PMMushroomsReindeer are particularly partial to magic mushrooms.Find out more at the QI EncyclopaediaLink to this itemShareSource
Fact10:01AMThe Latin verb manicare means ‘to come in the morning’.Link to this itemShareMore from @qikipedia
Fact8:01PMOne in five marriages in the world are between first cousins.Link to this itemShareSourceMore from @qikipedia
Fact6:01PMThe name sign of the town of Lost in Aberdeenshire is the only one in Britain that is welded to its pole.Link to this itemShareSourceMore from @qikipedia
