WITH THE NEWS that Stephen Fry is about to leave QI, look back on some of the series’ most memorable facts, and attempt to distinguish the truth from the bull.
1. Women buy 80 percent of everything that is for sale
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2. Under extreme high pressure, diamonds can be made from peanut butter
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3. The Queen is the legal owner of a quarter of the Earth’s land surface.
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4. Thomas Edison’s last breath is held in a vial at the Henry Ford museum in Detroit.
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6. Just like humans, British cows moo in regional accents.
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8. One in ten European babies is conceived in an IKEA bed.
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10. The center of the galaxy tastes like raspberries.
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11. Kangaroos have three vaginas.
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12. Eighty percent of all photographs in the world were taken in the last 12 months.
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13. People who die of old age are more likely to die at 11am than at any other time.
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Alright effort
A few of them are mindblowing to be fair.
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Full marks
You get all the points, you win!
3. It’s actually a sixth…, 5. It’s time, in fact, 7. That’s China, 9. It smells like geraniums, 11. It’s actually just 10.