FACTS

2,024 QI Facts To Stop You In Your Tracks by John Lloyd, James Harkin and Anne Miller, published by Faber on October 18

Valium is present in potatoes.

Dogs see in blue and yellow.

The dome of the Taj Mahal is held together with sugar, fruit juice and egg whites.

Eighty-five per cent of bikinis never get wet.

Chickens communicate using over 200 distinct noises.



Twenty-five per cent of the world's prisoners are in the U.S.

Half of all the plastic that has ever existed was made in the past 13 years.

Emmanuel Macron, president of France, spends £24,000-a-year on make-up.

Mosquitoes are responsible for half the deaths in human history.

Babies have half as much chance of developing asthma if there's a cat in the house.

2,024 QI Facts To Stop You In Your Tracks by John Lloyd, James Harkin and Anne Miller, published by Faber on October 18


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Jamie Lockerbie

"Bagpipes have been played for a millennium or more throughout large parts of Europe, northern Africa, and western Asia, including Turkey, the Caucasus, and around the Persian Gulf."

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Jimmy Carter once sent a jacket to the cleaners with the nuclear detonation codes still in the pocket.

In 1881, there were only six men in Britain called Derek.

China is the world's largest supplier of Bibles.

In 2009, a retired policeman called Geraint Woolford was admitted to Abergale Hospital in north Wales and ended up next to another retired policeman called Geraint Woolford. The men weren’t related, had never met and were the only two people in the UK called Geraint Woolford.

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