2,024 QI Facts to Stop You In Your Tracks by John Lloyd

2,024 QI Facts to Stop You In Your Tracks by John Lloyd

Author:John Lloyd [John Lloyd, James Harkin and Anne Miller]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780571348978
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 2018-11-15T00:00:00+00:00


60% of

1p and 2p coins

are used once, then

put in a jar.

243

* * *

Pickpockets in

17th-century Russia

used sharpened coins

to slice open their

victims’ purses.

The Bitcoin network

uses more power than

the whole of Serbia.

The Serbian equivalent of

saying ‘Bless you’ to a sneeze

is ‘Go away, kitten.’

Looking at photos

of puppies and kittens

helps you concentrate.

244

* * *

Paper wasps

know every other wasp

in their colony

by sight.

The record distance

for throwing a paper plane

is 69.14 metres.



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