QI facts

[bear66]

In the time it takes The Proclaimers to sing I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles), the International Space Station travels 500 miles, then 500 more

 

[coluka]

Hell of a space walk that like

 

[SmallTown]

Queen Cleopatra lived closer in time to the moon landings than she did the building of the great pyramids

 

[SmallTown]

In a roundabout way: Lucille Ball invented teleporting.

Her company: Desilu productions produced star wars. They "invented" teleportation as they didn't have the budget to film landings of the starship enterprise on the various planets they had so it was a cheap way of getting people off the ship.

 

[SmallTown]

And one of my faves: Bruce Forsyth was older than sliced bread

 

[bear66]

Shuttlecocks used in professional badminton are made of feathers from the left wing of a goose. Feathers from the right wing make them spin the wrong way.

 

[HarryVegas]

In a roundabout way: Lucille Ball invented teleporting.

Her company: Desilu productions produced star wars. They "invented" teleportation as they didn't have the budget to film landings of the starship enterprise on the various planets they had so it was a cheap way of getting people off the ship.

Star Trek, surely?

 

[SmallTown]

Star Trek, surely?

Yes, Star Trek. No idea why I put wars

 

[HarryVegas]

Yes, Star Trek. No idea why I put wars

Illogical...

 

[SmallTown]

The J in Michael J Fox stands for Andrew

 

[bear66]

When Monty Python toured the US and were asked to trash a hotel suite for publicity, Michael Palin obligingly went in the bathroom and broke a toothbrush.

 

[Bororeddaz]

Shuttlecocks used in professional badminton are made of feathers from the left wing of a goose. Feathers from the right wing make them spin the wrong way.

Factually incorrect. The feathers are from either the left or right wing but never intermixed.

 

[Doom_On_Horseback]

After 11 months on the International Space Station, astronaut Scott Kelly returned to Earth 13 milliseconds younger than his twin brother.

 

[Bororeddaz]

In the time it takes The Proclaimers to sing I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles), the International Space Station travels 500 miles, then 500 more

Factually incorrect. It travels just over 875 miles in 3mins 39 secs

 

[FatCat]

Until 1913, children in America could legally be sent by parcel post.

 

[FatCat]

Tin Tin is named Tan Tan in China as Tin Tin is pronounced chin chin and means penis.

 

[Bororeddaz]

In a roundabout way: Lucille Ball invented teleporting.

Her company: Desilu productions produced star wars. They "invented" teleportation as they didn't have the budget to film landings of the starship enterprise on the various planets they had so it was a cheap way of getting people off the ship.

Oh dear me where do we start with this. Desilu productions where the production company used for Star Wars. They didn’t invent teleportation and neither did the creator and producer of Star Trek, Gene Roddenberry. Teleportation in literature featured a century before Star Trek and on screen The Fly predates Star Trek

 

[bear66]

Factually incorrect. The feathers are from either the left or right wing but never intermixed.

Yonex AS-50 tournament shuttlecocks just use the left wing, as are all their other shuttlecocks.
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[Pak_Doo_Ik]

My absolute favourite QI fact

Robins have oranges breasts, but their breasts were described as red as orange didn't exist in the vocabulary as a colour.

The fruit orange was however widely available and was called an orange.

 

[HarryVegas]

Astronomers estimate that there are something like 10,000 stars in the known universe for every single grain of sand on earth.