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90% of Vietnamese share just 14 surnames.
90% of lobsters escape from lobster traps.
90% film critics are male.
90% of world trade is carried by ship.
The world’s heaviest aeroplane weighs as much as the statue Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro.
Until 1970, United Airlines had ‘men only’ flights serving steaks, brandy and cigars.
French tennis player Suzanne Lenglen drank brandy between sets but won 98% of her games.
Emma Martina Luigia Morano, the world‘s oldest person when she died at 117, outlived 90 Italian governments.
In 2017, a Brazilian great-grandmother discovered the figure of St Anthony that she’d prayed to for years was actually an elf from The Lord of the Rings.
Facebook uses The Lord of the Rings to teach its software how to think.
25% of Americans think God decides who wins the Super Bowl.
A ticket to the first Super Bowl cost $12; today’s tickets cost up to $3000.
90% of lobsters escape from lobster traps.
90% film critics are male.
90% of world trade is carried by ship.
The world’s heaviest aeroplane weighs as much as the statue Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro.
Until 1970, United Airlines had ‘men only’ flights serving steaks, brandy and cigars.
French tennis player Suzanne Lenglen drank brandy between sets but won 98% of her games.
Emma Martina Luigia Morano, the world‘s oldest person when she died at 117, outlived 90 Italian governments.
In 2017, a Brazilian great-grandmother discovered the figure of St Anthony that she’d prayed to for years was actually an elf from The Lord of the Rings.
Facebook uses The Lord of the Rings to teach its software how to think.
25% of Americans think God decides who wins the Super Bowl.
A ticket to the first Super Bowl cost $12; today’s tickets cost up to $3000.
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One side of the new £1 coin was designed by a 15 year-old.
The first Christmas stamp in the UK was designed by a 6 year-old.
Santa Claus’s first commercial appearance was in a 1923 advert for ginger beer.
To visit every child in the world Santa would need to travel at 3000 times the speed of sound.
92% of shopping-mall Santas have had their beard pulled to see if it was real.
30% of shopping-mall Santas have been urinated on by a child.
Leopard urine smells like popcorn.
The Romans used urine to clean their teeth.
Oxford University’s first professor of chemistry thought fossils were frozen urine.
If you pick up a desert tortoise, it can urinate itself to death.
Most of the white sand in the Caribbean is made of parrotfish droppings.
Kangaroos keep cool by licking their forearms.
The first Christmas stamp in the UK was designed by a 6 year-old.
Santa Claus’s first commercial appearance was in a 1923 advert for ginger beer.
To visit every child in the world Santa would need to travel at 3000 times the speed of sound.
92% of shopping-mall Santas have had their beard pulled to see if it was real.
30% of shopping-mall Santas have been urinated on by a child.
Leopard urine smells like popcorn.
The Romans used urine to clean their teeth.
Oxford University’s first professor of chemistry thought fossils were frozen urine.
If you pick up a desert tortoise, it can urinate itself to death.
Most of the white sand in the Caribbean is made of parrotfish droppings.
Kangaroos keep cool by licking their forearms.
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Birds can tell what the speed limits are on roads.
The French Air Force has a squad of golden eagles, trained to hunt down drones.
Dragonflies can be used as drones by fitting them with tiny backpacks.
Japanese scientists have invented a robot bee.
The White House only got the ability to print double-sided in 2016.
Lyndon B. Johnson had a nozzle fitted to his shower in the White House that fires water at his genitals.
Donald Trump presses a red button on his desk when he wants the White House butler to bring him a Diet Coke.
Domino’s customers can place an order by tweeting a pizza emoji.
The world’s largest pizza was twice the size of a tennis court.
From 1974 to 1992, a third of all tennis Grand Slams were won by Swedish men; today, there are none in the top 150.
A Swede born with ‘a silver spoon in their mouth’ is said to have ’slid in on a shrimp sandwich’.
The Polish equivalent of ‘Were you born yesterday?’ is ‘Did you fall from a Christmas tree?’
The French Air Force has a squad of golden eagles, trained to hunt down drones.
Dragonflies can be used as drones by fitting them with tiny backpacks.
Japanese scientists have invented a robot bee.
The White House only got the ability to print double-sided in 2016.
Lyndon B. Johnson had a nozzle fitted to his shower in the White House that fires water at his genitals.
Donald Trump presses a red button on his desk when he wants the White House butler to bring him a Diet Coke.
Domino’s customers can place an order by tweeting a pizza emoji.
The world’s largest pizza was twice the size of a tennis court.
From 1974 to 1992, a third of all tennis Grand Slams were won by Swedish men; today, there are none in the top 150.
A Swede born with ‘a silver spoon in their mouth’ is said to have ’slid in on a shrimp sandwich’.
The Polish equivalent of ‘Were you born yesterday?’ is ‘Did you fall from a Christmas tree?’
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The money spent on Christmas presents in the UK could fund the NHS from Boxing Day to 12 February.
Christmas crackers were originally called ‘bangs of expectation’.
The first Christmas tree erected in Trafalgar Square was transported at night because it exceeded the legal weight limits on British roads in daytime.
In the Australian outback, there is a road used for testing Supercars that has no speed limit.
Potholes in roads in 19th-century Argentina were filled with surplus sheep’s heads.
In 19th-century America, roads were paved with oyster shells.
An oyster thief in 19th-century London called Dando would eat dozens of oysters, then abscond without paying.
The Oyster card was created by Saatchi & Saatchi.
Wig-snatching was a common crime in 18th-century England.
In 2014, German police issued a fine to a one-armed cyclist for cycling with one arm.
The Olympic Village for the 1980 Winter Games in Upstate New York is now a prison.
South Korean sniffer dogs sold to the Russian police in Siberia have proved to be useless because they don’t like the cold.
Christmas crackers were originally called ‘bangs of expectation’.
The first Christmas tree erected in Trafalgar Square was transported at night because it exceeded the legal weight limits on British roads in daytime.
In the Australian outback, there is a road used for testing Supercars that has no speed limit.
Potholes in roads in 19th-century Argentina were filled with surplus sheep’s heads.
In 19th-century America, roads were paved with oyster shells.
An oyster thief in 19th-century London called Dando would eat dozens of oysters, then abscond without paying.
The Oyster card was created by Saatchi & Saatchi.
Wig-snatching was a common crime in 18th-century England.
In 2014, German police issued a fine to a one-armed cyclist for cycling with one arm.
The Olympic Village for the 1980 Winter Games in Upstate New York is now a prison.
South Korean sniffer dogs sold to the Russian police in Siberia have proved to be useless because they don’t like the cold.
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QI True or False Questions:
1. The Ring of Fire is a circular area of the Pacific that contains many of the world’s active volcanoes.
2. Brahms took 16 years to write his first symphony.
3. There are no bridges that cross the Amazon river.
4. Coca-Cola in the Maldives has rainwater as an ingredient.
QI True or False Questions:
1. The Ring of Fire is a circular area of the Pacific that contains many of the world’s active volcanoes.
2. Brahms took 16 years to write his first symphony.
3. There are no bridges that cross the Amazon river.
4. Coca-Cola in the Maldives has rainwater as an ingredient.
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