The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.
This is a lie it was invented by Lisa Holst in 1993 to test peoples gullibility when using the internet.
It takes a week to make a jelly bean.
The shortest boxing match of all time was 7 seconds long.
The average length of foreplay in a human being is 22.5 minutes. However the entire experience (including fore play) lasts 18.64 minutes. Therefore the average sexual encounter lasts -3.86 minutes.
Birmingham has more miles of canal than Venice.
A "jiffy" is the time taken for light to travel half an inch in a vacuum. (0.33 picoseconds)
Garrincha (the second best Brazilian footballer of all time) lost his virginity to a goat.
If you stand on your head, drink a glass of choclate milk, then sing an arabian folk song, it will actually cause your tounge to grow two inches. It has something to do with the upside downess, causes the choclate milk to act funny, then the arabian folk song just makes your tounge go wild.
35% Europeans deceases are caused by Vascular Cerebral Accident. As to the other 65%, 10% are car accidents, 15% cancer, 20% infarct/heart diseases, 10% falls/hits/crushes and the rest of 10% other diseases, homicide and suicide.
dogs are more feline then cats and cats are more canine than dogs
Cat is derived from the Roman word Cattus which meant dog.
Might as well add this on: The QI "fact of the day" is
Top hats have been fashionable for almost 200 years, but when the first one was worn in 1797 by James Heatherington, he was immediately arrested and fined 50 pounds for behaving in a manner 'calculated to frighten timid people'.
The idea for the name Xbox was developed from Microsoft's Direct X 10
and Xbox 360 was named Xbox 360 instead of Xbox 2 because it was created to compete with Playstation 2. So for marketing reasons, and to not make it seem like older technology to buyers, when compared with Playstation 3, it was named 360 instead of 2.
