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Connoisseur said:
1 in 100 Americans work for Walmart.

FTSE 100 CEO’s make more money in two and a half days than the average worker makes in a year.

Only 4.2% of Fortune companies are run by women.

Men appear in the newspapers three times as often as women and have done so since 1800.

During the Second World War, Women’s Institutes played ‘Pin the Moustache in Hitler’.

In the Second World War, it was illegal to post knitting patterns abroad in case they contained coded messages.

In 1857, British Officials were convinced Indian villagers were passing secret messages hidden in chapattis.

The first editorial assistant to work on the Oxford English Dictionary was sacked for industrial espionage.

My Adventures as a Spy, by Lord Baden-Powell, has a chapter on ‘The Value of Being Stupid’.

Secret agents have to be trained to forget their advanced driving courses.

The CIA use board games to train spies.

The CIA Museum in Langley, Virginia is not open to the public.
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In the First World War, battlefield observation stations were hidden inside trees.

The oak is the national tree of Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Estonia, France, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Serbia and the UK.

There are more trees on Earth than stars in the Milky Way.

1% of all the timber sold in the world is bought by IKEA.

12% of all the iron in Britain in the 1780s was cast by one man- John ‘Iron Mad’ Wilkinson.

One-third of entrepreneurs think their chance of failing is zero.

’Entropreneurs‘ are people who farm new types of edible insect.

Minecraft is used to pitch for business deals.

After shaking hands, most people unwittingly sniff their fingers.

Octopuses smell with their arms.

Vegetarians smell nicer than people who eat meat.

Sniffing milk to test its freshness rather than going by the sell-by-date would save 100 million pints a year.
 
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Connoisseur said:
In the First World War, battlefield observation stations were hidden inside trees.

The oak is the national tree of Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Estonia, France, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Serbia and the UK.

There are more trees on Earth than stars in the Milky Way.

1% of all the timber sold in the world is bought by IKEA.

12% of all the iron in Britain in the 1780s was cast by one man- John ‘Iron Mad’ Wilkinson.

One-third of entrepreneurs think their chance of failing is zero.

’Entropreneurs‘ are people who farm new types of edible insect.

Minecraft is used to pitch for business deals.

After shaking hands, most people unwittingly sniff their fingers.

Octopuses smell with their arms.

Vegetarians smell nicer than people who eat meat.

Sniffing milk to test its freshness rather than going by the sell-by-date would save 100 million pints a year.
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In 1946, only 2% of British households had a fridge.

Octopuses spend 3% of their time tidying.

Only 4% of people who try to quit smoking without help succeed.

Only 5% of Chinese people have a passport.

31% of Chinese tourists pack instant noodles when they travel.

The ancient Chinese could count up to a million on their hands.

Six million years ago, otters were bigger than leopards.

An analysis of eight million books published between 1776 and 2009 found that Britons were happiest in 1957.

In 1957, the US Air Force flew around the world to show they could bomb anywhere they wanted.

More than 2400 nuclear bombs have been detonated since 1945.

It will be another 500 years before the Somme is free of bombs.

On 16 March 1945, bombs dropped by the British on Wurzburg, Germany, destroyed 90% of the buildings in 20 minutes.
 
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Thanks will listen to it over the weekend, which episodes did you recommend again?
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Due to the large available library of episodes (closing in on 300), it’s largely dependent on what genre/category you’re interested in or if you wish to be introduced to someone new. I’ve only listened to approximately 1/5 to 1/4 of the available episodes but below are some of my recommendations.

10. Penn Jillette
19. Adam West
20. Weird Al Yankovic
29. Henry Winkler
45. Steve Buscemi
48. Lewis Black
58. Paul Williams and Tracey Jackson
71. Mario Cantone
77. Chevy Chase
87. George Takei
105. Tony Orlando
123. Bob Einstein
134. Mario Cantone
135. Burt Ward
172. Bill Macy
187. Mario Cantone
202. Ed Begley Jr
211. Arnie and Jay Kogen
239. Mario Cantone
275. Jeff Abraham and Burt Kearns
286. Stephen Bishop
287. Bob Bergen and Rob Paulsen
291. Mario Cantone
292. Kenny Loggins
295. Paul Reiser
 
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Connoisseur said:
Due to the large available library of episodes (closing in on 300), it’s largely dependent on what genre/category you’re interested in or if you wish to be introduced to someone new. I’ve only listened to approximately 1/5 to 1/4 of the available episodes but below are some of my recommendations.

10. Penn Jillette
19. Adam West
20. Weird Al Yankovic
29. Henry Winkler
45. Steve Buscemi
48. Lewis Black
58. Paul Williams and Tracey Jackson
71. Mario Cantone
77. Chevy Chase
87. George Takei
105. Tony Orlando
123. Bob Einstein
134. Mario Cantone
135. Burt Ward
172. Bill Macy
187. Mario Cantone
202. Ed Begley Jr
211. Arnie and Jay Kogen
239. Mario Cantone
275. Jeff Abraham and Burt Kearns
286. Stephen Bishop
287. Bob Bergen and Rob Paulsen
291. Mario Cantone
292. Kenny Loggins
295. Paul Reiser
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wow there's quite a few, think I'll start at the top and work my way down. ?
 
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@Darkie , @Diabolical , @Rowsus , @Ironhawk , @Professor , @IDIG , @THCLT and @PC.

QI True or False Questions:
1. In 2018 the world pie eating championships switched to chicken from meat and potato pies to mitigate flatulence.
2.Lancaster, Pennsylvania was the capital of the USA for a single day in 1776.
3. Frogs tongues are 10 times softer than human tongues.
4. The first McDonald's only sold chicken nuggets.
 
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