Fact8:01PMAn Atlantic salmon’s sense of smell is 1,000 times better than a dog’s.Link to this itemShareSourceMore from @qikipedia
Fact6:01PMBritish troops in India during the Second World War were issued with the memorable advice: ‘Defeat the Axis, Use Prophylaxis’.Link to this itemShareMore from @qikipedia
Topic5:01PMThe American Front PorchOne theory of the origin of the term ‘shotgun house’ is that you could fire a shotgun clean though it without hitting anything.Find out more at the QI EncyclopaediaLink to this itemShareSource
Fact4:01PMThe name Mali means ‘hippopotamus’ in Bamanankan, the main language of the country.Link to this itemShareSourceMore from @qikipedia
Fact2:01PMThere are beetles named after Darth Vader, Kate Winslet and Adolf Hitler.Link to this itemShareSourceMore from @qikipedia
Topic12:01PMKeyboardsThe average keyboard contains 3,295 microbes per square inch.Find out more at the QI EncyclopaediaLink to this itemShareSource
Fact10:01AMModern fishing lines can be up to 75 miles long.Link to this itemShareMore from @qikipedia
Fact8:01PMIn 2011, only nine of the 62 owners, of apartments in One Hyde Park, London, the world’s most expensive block of flats, paid any council tax.Link to this itemShareSourceMore from @qikipedia
Fact6:01PMIn 2013, a PayPal computer error briefly made a man in Pennsylvania the richest person in the world.Link to this itemShareSourceMore from @qikipedia
Topic5:01PMMonksA monk is a person who practices religious asceticism, living either alone or with any number of other monks.Find out more at the QI EncyclopaediaLink to this itemShareSource
Fact4:01PMAncient Egyptian lettuce contained the same active ingredient as cocaine.Link to this itemShareSourceMore from @qikipedia
Fact2:01PMPrince Charles runs his car on biofuel made from wine.Link to this itemShareSourceMore from @qikipedia
Topic12:01PMNominative Determinism Dallas Raines and Storm Field are real US weather forecasters.Find out more at the QI EncyclopaediaLink to this itemShareSource
Fact10:01AMIn 2014, a pair of underpants donated by the mayor of Brussels was stolen from the Brussels Underpants Museum.Link to this itemShareSourceMore from @qikipedia
Fact8:01PMKing Francis I of France hung the Mona Lisa in his bathroom.Link to this itemShareSourceMore from @qikipedia
Fact6:01PMThe Ewok language is a combination of Tibetan and NepaliLink to this itemShareSourceMore from @qikipedia
Topic5:01PMStarsIt is estimated that there are about 300,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000 stars in the Universe.Find out more at the QI EncyclopaediaLink to this itemShareSource
Fact4:01PMIf you ate in a different New York eatery every day for 12 years, you still wouldn’t have visited all of the city’s restaurants.Link to this itemShareSourceMore from @qikipedia
Fact2:01PMThe English word ‘squirrel’ is particularly difficult for Germans to pronounce.Link to this itemShareSourceMore from @qikipedia
Topic12:01PMKayaks and CanoesMissouri means ‘town of the large canoes’ in Missouri Indian.Find out more at the QI EncyclopaediaLink to this itemShareSource
