QI: Some quite interesting facts

As you may or may not know, Dave is home to the wonderfully bright Stephen Fry and his fantastically cosy panel quiz show QI. So we thought we'd celebrate all the little things that make you go "really? I never knew that", with twenty quite interesting facts...
# The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time TV were Fred and Wilma Flintstone

# When dining with Royalty, it is customary to stop eating when they have finished whether you have finished or not.

# Sigourney Weaver's dad, Pat, is said to be one of only two people who know the exact recipe for Coca Cola.

# The acronym I.O.U. actually stands for 'Is Owed Unto'.

# The only word in the English language that ends in '-MT' is 'Dreamt'.

# The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump.

# If you dream about cucumber it is meant to foretell romance.

# Because of the rotation of the earth, an object can be thrown further if thrown west.

# Time magazine's 'Man of the Year' for 1938 was Adolph Hitler.

# The average salary in the UK is £25,000. If you earn this, you are richer than 97% of the rest of the world.

# Walt Disney holds the record for most Oscars won (26) and most nominations received (64).

# Ringtones now account for 10 per cent of the world's music market, generating a staggering $3bn.

# What do Sir Jimmy Savile, Garry Bushell, Jamie Theakstone and Carol Vorderman have in common? They're all members of Mensa.

# Average number of Americans killed annually by vending machines falling on them: 13

# James Bond is half-Swiss. According to Ian Fleming's You Only Live Twice, Bond was the son of a Scottish father, Andrew Bond, and a Swiss mother, Monique Delacroix, both of whom died in a climbing accident.

# The record distance for a human fired from a cannon is 57 metres.

# It takes approximately two million flowers for a bee to make 1 lb of honey.

# A peanut is not a nut. It is a legume.

# Your body contains 60,000 miles of blood vessels

# The following celebrities were cheerleaders at college;
Teri Hatcher (Freemount High, San Francisco),
Sandra Bullock (Arlington, Virginia),
Raquel Welch (San Diego),
Cameron Diaz (Long Beach High)
And George W Bush (Phillips Academy, Massachusetts)!






Source: BBC Website