Fact4:01PMGurbanguly Berdimuhamedow, the president of Turkmenistan, sacked 30 TV news staff in 2008 after a cockroach was spotted walking across the set during a bulletin.Link to this itemShareSourceMore from @qikipedia
Fact2:01PMIn North Welsh, the word for ‘now’ is rwan, in South Welsh it is nawr, the same word spelt backwards.Link to this itemShareSourceMore from @qikipedia
Topic12:01PMReindeerA poronkusema is a distance of about 7.5Km in Finland. It’s how far a reindeer can travel without stopping to urinate.Find out more at the QI EncyclopaediaLink to this itemShareSource
Fact10:01AMThe Irish word leis (pronounced ‘lesh’) has four different meanings. Bhí leis leis leis leis means ‘His thigh was naked also’.Link to this itemShareMore from @qikipedia
Fact8:01PMIt is cheaper to send Scottish cod to China to be filleted and sent back again than to fillet the fish in Scotland.Link to this itemShareMore from @qikipedia
Fact6:01PMLeo Tolstoy’s wife wrote out the drafts of War and Peace for him, in longhand, six times.Link to this itemShareSourceMore from @qikipedia
Topic5:01PMCheatingThe Spanish Paralympic basketball team in 2000, had to hand back their medals as 10 of them didn’t have a disability.Find out more at the QI EncyclopaediaLink to this itemShareSource
Fact4:01PMSamuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) liked to eat fruit while it was still attached to the tree.Link to this itemShareMore from @qikipedia
Fact2:01PMAs a nuclear-safety inspector, Homer Simpson earns $20,000 more than the average American.Link to this itemShareSourceMore from @qikipedia
Topic12:01PMRobotsThe first person to be killed by a robot was called Robbie Williams.Find out more at the QI EncyclopaediaLink to this itemShareSource
Fact8:01PMPeople are 1% shorter in the evening than they are in the morning.Link to this itemShareMore from @qikipedia
Fact6:01PMQI is the most commonly played word in Tournament Scrabble. It’s pronounced ‘chee’ and means ‘life force’ or ‘energy’ in Mandarin.Link to this itemShareMore from @qikipedia
Topic5:01PMBeesBees can recognise human faces.Find out more at the QI EncyclopaediaLink to this itemShareSource
Fact2:01PMThe world’s oldest living thing is a patch of Mediterranean sea-grass between Spain and Cyprus. It is estimated to be 200,000 years old.Link to this itemShareSourceMore from @qikipedia
Fact12:01PMOne third of all the salt produced in the US is used to melt ice on roads.Link to this itemShareMore from @qikipedia
Topic12:01PMCon ArtistsCock Lane’s other claim to fame is as the place where the Great Fire of 1666 finally burnt itself out.Find out more at the QI EncyclopaediaLink to this itemShareSource
Fact10:01AMThere will be a full moon on Christmas Day for the first time since 1977.Link to this itemShareSourceMore from @qikipedia
