Fact11:01AMPeople in India panning for gold in sewers make four times the average wage.Link to this itemShareSourceMore from @qikipedia
Topic11:01AMDenmarkThe Danish for bookseller is boghandler.Find out more at the QI EncyclopaediaLink to this itemShareSource
Fact9:01AMCroquet was dropped as an Olympic sport after the 1900 games because only 1 spectator had turned up to watch.Link to this itemShareSourceMore from @qikipedia
Fact9:01PMThe world’s most expensive phone number is 666-6666. It was sold in 2006 for £1.5 million.Link to this itemShareSourceMore from @qikipedia
Fact7:01PMThe same man invented heroin and aspirin in the same year: Felix Hoffman, 1897.Link to this itemShareMore from @qikipedia
Fact5:01PMQueen Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon landings than to the building of the Great Pyramid.Link to this itemShareSourceMore from @qikipedia
Topic4:01PMElephantsAn elephant has two ‘fingers’ at the end of its trunk which can pick up fruit the size of a marble.Find out more at the QI EncyclopaediaLink to this itemShareSource
Fact3:01PMThe world’s tallest statue, currently being built in India, is of a deputy prime minister.Link to this itemShareSourceMore from @qikipedia
Fact1:01PMFor inspiration, D. H. Lawrence liked to climb mulberry trees naked.Link to this itemShareSourceMore from @qikipedia
Topic11:01AMKnightsIn the Middle Ages, knights kissed before doing battle, just as boxers touch gloves.Find out more at the QI EncyclopaediaLink to this itemShareSource
Fact9:01AMEinstein’s last words were spoken in German to a nurse who didn’t speak German and are lost for ever.Link to this itemShareSourceMore from @qikipedia
Fact9:01PMThere is no word in English which rhymes with ‘pint’.Link to this itemShareSourceMore from @qikipedia
Fact7:01PMLava lamps were invented by an accountant whose hobby was making underwater nudist films.Link to this itemShareSourceMore from @qikipedia
Fact5:01PM1 in 6 Google searches have never been searched for before.Link to this itemShareMore from @qikipedia
Topic4:01PMAmazonsThe 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
Fact3:01PMAll but one of the ravens at the Tower of London died from stress during the Blitz.Link to this itemShareMore from @qikipedia
Topic11:01AMLaughing GasThe Arctic belches out lots and lots of laughing gas into the atmosphere.Find out more at the QI EncyclopaediaLink to this itemShareSource
Fact9:01PMWhen Matt Smith became the 11th Doctor Who in 2010, UK bow-tie sales doubled in a month.Link to this itemShareSourceMore from @qikipedia
