John Lloyd - 1,339 QI Facts To Make Your Jaw Drop

There are 1,339 bank branches in Peru. There are 1,339 outdoor sculptures in Texas. There are 1,339 Christian churches in Wenzhou, China. There are 1,339 illegal factories in Samanabad, Pakistan. Pakistan means Land of the Pure in Urdu.

The most commonly used word for detergent in Urdu is Surf. It is illegal in China to show TV ads for haemorrhoid cream at mealtimes. One in seven UK banknotes carries traces of anal bacteria.

Babies are born with no bacteria in their bodies. The word infant is from the Latin for unable to speak. Bow-wow, Ding-dong and Pooh-pooh are all names for different theories about the origin of language.

Winnie the Poohs real name is Edward Bear.

The offspring of a polar bear and a grizzly bear is called a pizzly bear. A baby pterosaur is called a flapling. Cockroaches appeared 120 million years before the dinosaurs. The Himalayas were formed 25 million years after the last dinosaur died out. R. R. R.

Tolkien and Adolf Hitler both fought at the battle of the Somme. During Hitlers years in power, Mein Kampf was given away free to every newly-wed couple. Mussolini described Mein Kampf as a boring tome that I have never been able to read.

The most-read publication in the UK is Tesco magazine. A pint of milk in a supermarket can contain milk from over a thousand different cows. The average Briton consumes 8 cows, 36 sheep and 36 pigs in a lifetime.

A raw carrot is still alive when you eat it.

Half the food produced in the world is left to rot. Every hour, the UK produces enough waste to fill the Albert Hall. If the Albert Hall were a freezer, it could hold all the galaxies in the visible universe if they were the size of frozen peas. Howard Hughes kept a ruler in his hotel room to measure any peas he ordered, sending back those that were too big. CCD (canine compulsive disorder) is OCD for dogs.

In German, Dogging is jogging with your dog. Bloodhounds noses are 100 million times more sensitive than human noses. Astronauts helmets contain a small piece of Velcro so they can scratch their noses.

According to Velcros official website, there is no such thing as Velcro. Splenda was an insecticide that became a sweetener when an assistant misheard an order to test it as taste it. Samsungs first product was dried fish.

Wrigleys originally made soap.

Chewing gum costs 3p a stick to buy but 10p a blob to clean off the pavement. Second Street is the most common street name in the USA. First Street is the third most common. The oldest bridge in Paris is the Pont Neuf, or New Bridge. Half of all animal and plant species live in only one country and nowhere else. Half of all animal and plant species live in only one country and nowhere else.

Half of British adults dont believe in evolution. Most clams begin life as males, but half of them turn female when older. The Green Zone Golf Club is on the border of Finland and Sweden: half the holes are in one country and half in the other.

The first woman to play golf was Mary Queen of Scots. Agatha Christie was a keen surfer. George W.

Bush was a college cheerleader. Bruce Lee was Hong Kongs 1958 cha-cha dance champion.

The oldest dance still performed is the Austrian shoe-slapping dance. The oldest animal ever found was a 405-year-old Icelandic clam. It was killed by researchers trying to work out its age. on Wednesdays. Nudiustertian means relating to the day before yesterday.