1,411 QI Facts to Knock You Sideways Quotes

“J. M. Barrie founded a celebrity cricket team with Arthur Conan Doyle, H. G. Wells, Jerome K. Jerome, G. K. Chesterton, A. A. Milne, Rudyard Kipling and P. G. Wodehouse.”
― John Lloyd, 1,411 QI Facts To Knock You Sideways

“From 1934 to 1948, the motto of the BBC was Quaecunque, Latin for ‘Whatever’.”
― John Lloyd, 1,411 QI Facts To Knock You Sideways

“Viking names included ‘desirous of beer’, ‘squat-wiggle’, ‘lust-hostage’, ‘short penis’, ‘able to fill a bay with fish by magic’, ‘the man who mixes his drinks’ and ‘the man without trousers’.”
― John Lloyd, 1,411 QI Facts To Knock You Sideways

“René Descartes had a fetish for cross-eyed women.”
― John Lloyd, 1,411 QI Facts To Knock You Sideways

“Between 1908 and 1965, Winston Churchill drank 42,000 bottles of champagne.”
― John Lloyd, 1,411 QI Facts To Knock You Sideways

“The lawnmower is the most dangerous item in the garden. The second most dangerous is the flowerpot.”
― John Lloyd, 1,411 QI Facts To Knock You Sideways

“Information is fleeting. Human records are broken; new particles are discovered; fresh historical documents come to light. Dinosaurs turn out not to be giant grey iguanas after all, but multicoloured feathery proto-birds of all shapes and sizes. Right now, even the daddy of all facts, the Big Bang theory, is looking wobbly.”
― John Lloyd, 1,411 QI Facts To Knock You Sideways

“The name ‘United Nations’ was Franklin D. Roosevelt’s idea. He rushed to tell Winston Churchill, who was towelling himself stark naked in his bathroom.”
― John Lloyd, 1,411 QI Facts To Knock You Sideways

“The first choice of a name for Disney’s Hannah Montana was Alexis Texas, but it was already taken by a porn star.”
― John Lloyd, 1,411 QI Facts To Knock You Sideways

“In 2013, the Venezuelan government accused the opposition of hoarding toilet paper and causing a national shortage.”
― John Lloyd, 1,411 QI Facts To Knock You Sideways

“Whales’ vaginas can be large enough to walk through.”
― John Lloyd, 1,411 QI Facts To Knock You Sideways

“Dildos are illegal in Texas.”
― John Lloyd, 1,411 QI Facts To Knock You Sideways

“New-car smell is toxic to humans.”
― John Lloyd, 1,411 QI Facts To Knock You Sideways

“Camel urine is as thick as syrup.”
― John Lloyd, 1,411 QI Facts To Knock You Sideways

“If cats don’t encounter people by the time they’re 10 weeks old, they will always be scared of them.”
― John Lloyd, 1,411 QI Facts To Knock You Sideways

“4% of the sand on Normandy beaches is made up of tiny metal particles from the D-Day landings.”
― John Lloyd, 1,411 QI Facts To Knock You Sideways

“The Daleks were based on the Nazis.”
― John Lloyd, 1,411 QI Facts To Knock You Sideways

“The inventor of roller skates first demonstrated them by hurtling into a party while playing the violin and crashing into a huge mirror.”
― John Lloyd, 1,411 QI Facts To Knock You Sideways