The first ever edition of the Daily Mirror came with a free mirror.. quite interesting 50 facts you didn't know.

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Byline: STEVE MYALL steve.myall@mirror.co.ukFOR a decade Stephen Fry has challenged TV audiences with questions which are, well, quite interesting. has with ll, Since 2003 the cerebral host of the BBC's popular comic quiz Qi - which, of course, stands for "Quite Interesting" - has been punishing show regular Alan Davies for giving obvious but wrong answers. Instead marks are awarded for the obscure, the fascinating and remarkable nuggets of wisdom.d Now the best bits from 10 years of the show have been packed into a new book, 1,227 Qi Facts. ars of a new 1When customers visited the UK's first supermarkets they were afraid to pick up goods in case they were told off. d the they ds in 2 thing Women buy 80% of everything that is for sale.3a, t Nelson Mandela, right, was not removed from the US terror watch list until 2008.4The founder of match.com, Gary Kremen, lost his girlfriend to a man she met on match.com. h. ost e met 5The proud owner of the first silicone breast implant was a dog called Esmeralda.6In 1915, the lock millionaire Cecil Chubb bought his wife Stonehenge. She didn't like it, so in 1918 he gave it to the nation.7Thomas Edison's last breath is held in a vial at the Henry Ford museum in Detroit.8 A pumping human heart can squirt blood 30ft.9In ancient Greek the word "idiot" meant anyone who wasn't a politician.10Jimmy Carter once sent a jacket to the cleaner's with the nuclear detonation codes still in the pocket.11The second man to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel, Bobby Leach, survived the fall but later died as a result of slipping on a piece of orange peel.12 Just like humans, British cows 13 moo in regional accents. Every year, 4 million cats are eaten in Asia.14Under Chairman Mao, every Chinese family was obliged to kill a sparrow a week to stop them eating all the rice. The project was ineffective because sparrows don't eat rice.p j se sparrvive 15 in e: Ants can survive in a microwave: they are small enough to dodge the rays.e 16The last private resident of 10 Downing Street was a Mr Chicken.17 ate resi-Downing hicken. t war ever b t The shortest war ever fought was between Britain and Zanzibar on August 27, 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.18The Sun's core is so hot that a piece of it the size of a pinhead would give off enough heat to kill a person 160 kilometres away.19Liechtenstein, the world's sixth smallest country, is the largest exporter of false teeth.20 Michael J Fox's middle name is Andrew.21In 1811, nearly a quarter of all the women in Britain were named Mary.22 In 1881, there were only six men in Britain called Derek.23 Only 4 Clives and 13 Trevors were born in the UK in 2011.24It's unsafe for travellers to rely on St Christopher any more: he lost his sainthood in 1969.25Until 1913, children in America could legally be sent by parcel post.26China is the world's largest supplier of Bibles: one factory in Nanjing prints a million a month.factory on a 27John Cleese's father's surname was Cheese. Cleese, right, grew up 10 miles from Cheddar and her's eese.up 10 nd his best friend at school was called Barney Butter. s 28 d Heroin was originally marketed as cough medicine.29The Nazis made it illegal on pain of death for apes to give the Heil Hitler salute. n e 30 30 All but one of the ravens at the Tower of London died from stress during the Blitz.All but on Tower of L during the The Cent 31 The Dyslexia Research Centre is in Reading.3 32 The United States of America maintains a military presence in 148 of the 192 United Nations countries.33 militar United If th in, it minu the If you drilled a tunnel straight through the Earth and jumped in, it would take you exactly 42 minutes and 12 seconds to get to the other side.34 Beyonce Knowles is an 8th cousin, four times removed, of Gustav Mahler.o 35When the Mona Lisa, right, was stolen from the Louvre in 1911, one of the suspects was Picasso.Mr st the 191 the was Pi Ge Hu made b In 36 37 George W Bush and Saddam Hussein had their shoes handmade by the same Italian cobbler. In his first year at Harrow, Winston Churchill was bottom of the whole school.W of the Th be of eigh 38The Irish poet Brendan Behan became an alcoholic at the age of eight.39In Afghanistan and Iraq it takes 250,000 bullets (three tons of ammunition) to kill each insurgent.40Baseball legend Babe Ruth always wore a cabbage leaf under his cap to keep his head cool. In South Korea, this is considered unsporting, unless the player has a doctor's note.41Under extreme high pressure, diamonds can be made from peanut butter.42The citizens of Kuwait celebrated the end of the first Gulf War by firing weapons into the air. 20 Kuwaitis died as a result of bullets falling from the sky.43 The Sami people of northern Finland use a measure called Poronkusema: the distance a reindeer, left, can walk before needing to urinate.Finland Poronku reindee needingGaHa 44In 2009, a retired policeman called Geraint Woolford was admitted to Abergale Hospital in north Wales and ended up next to another retired policeman called Geraint Woolford. The men weren't related, had never met and were the only two people in the UK called Geraint Woolford.ac 45In 1999, Darlington FC acquired 50,000 worms to irrigate their waterlogged pitch. They all drowned.46 4 dg Edmund Hillary, right, the first man to climb Everest, was a professional beekeeper. When filling in forms, he always gave his occupation as "apiarist". Tintin is called Tantan in Japanese because TinTin is pronounced 'Chin chin' and means penis.47 48The water in the mouth of a blue whale weighs more than its body.49Saddam's bunker was designed by the grandson of the woman who built Hitler's bunker.wH 50 Dw The first-ever edition of the Daily Mirror, left, came with a free mirror. ?1,227 Qi Facts To Blow Your Socks Off, compiled by John Lloyd, John Mitchinson and James Harkin, is published by Faber and Faber. (c) QI 2012 (Faber and Faber).w d n s y ICAPTION(S):BRAINY J Qi host Stephen Fry