Cows have an acute sense of smell. They can predict the approach of a storm hours before it arrives and can detect odours from a distance of six miles away.

“Keep five yards from a carriage, ten yards from a horse, and a hundred yards from an elephant; but the distance one should keep from a wicked man cannot be measured.”

INDIAN PROVERB

QI joins Twitter

At Stephen's suggestion, QI has created its own account on twitter.com. We'll be serving up a daily helping of interestingness so why not come over and see what we're tweeting about. You can find us at: http://twitter.com/qikipedia

Americans need us!

After the success of our online petition to have Series 1 released on DVD, we're following it up with another - this time to get QI shown in America. Read more.

FINALLY here are the results. Thank you one and all for entering the competition and sorry we took such a time to declare the winners, who have all been told the news prior to this announcement.

QI now has a regular column in the weekend Telegraph. You can find a mix of letter-based facts and short essays that show 'the scenic route' through everything that's quite interesting.

RSS feeds for QI can be found here.

What is an RSS feed? You'll be wanting a news reader...

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The QI Qibble Blog

The trusty QI researchers or Elves have been known to make the odd small mistake. Our viewers and readers are never shy about letting us know when that happens, and we are always pleased to learn more so we've decided to collect together the most common 'quibbles', along with official responses from the elves responsible, in our new Qibble Blog.

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QI: The BBC TV Show

Now recording its seventh season (all things 'G'), the hit comedy quiz panel show QI satisfies both humerus and cranium. The 'F' series has now finished broadcasting on BBC1 on Friday nights, though older series can still be seen regularly on Dave or purchased in DVD format.

The QI Talk Forum

If you're bursting with questions - or answers - come in and join the QI Talk Forum where you can chat with like-minded people. You'll be quite interested to discover that the exact opposite of what is generally believed is often closer to the truth.

The QI Shop

If you want QI in three dimensions, there is a rather diverting range of books, games, DVDs and gewgaws available in our online Shop.

We have just won (for the second year running) a Televisual Bulldog award for "Best Panel, Quiz or Chat Show."

Unlike most awards voted for by a judging panel, these awards are voted on by everyone in production. As the magazine's website itself says:

"For the community, of the community and by the community is the maxim for The Televisual Bulldog Awards, in which everyone that defines UK production - commissioners, producers and facilitators - has the opportunity to vote for the very best of 2008’s television. Over the past two years an average of over 2,000 television executives voted to have their say about the best of UK television - both by reply-paid mail and online. The vast majority worked in independent production and broadcast companies."

Translated into 29 languages, the original Book of General Ignorance was an international bestseller and Amazon's 4th best-selling book in the world ever.

To mark the passage of the TV show to BBC1, we have produced a completely new edition.

If you are one of the million people who have already bought a copy, you may wonder why the new edition is worth buying. Well, it's more than 25% longer, with extra cartoons, hilarious extracts from the TV show, and 50 new things you didn't know, including:

• No one has ever slid down a banister.
• There are 613 Commandments in the Bible.
• Vipers, cobras and rattlesnakes are not poisonous.
• Newborn babies are indifferent to their mothers.
• The Swiss Family weren't called Robinson.
• The unluckiest date is Monday the 27th.
• You have no muscles in your fingers.
• Coffee isn't made from beans.

So as well as being completely revised, corrected and plumped up, it now includes an index, and an appendix listing all the celebrities who have appeared on QI to date. Oh, and Four New Words by Alan Davies!

For those of you on a strict QI diet, here is our complete smorgasbord of nutritious mind fodder. As The Times of London said only recently: "Have QI for pudding. Your cultural digestive system will feel both energised and soothed." Click on the cover to find out more information or to order.

Advanced Banter	The QI 'F' Annual	The Sound of General Ignorance [Audiobook]
The Pocket Book of General Ignorance	The Book of Animal Ignorance	The QI 'E' Annual
The Complete Third Series on DVD	The Complete Second Series on DVD	The Second QI Game: Strictly Come Duncing
Each of these items, and much, much more, is available for purchase from our Online shop, which links through to Amazon. You can also visit our new QI products page on Facebook.

Here's a selection of the latest news from around the world that we found Quite Interesting:

• German Condom Ad Sparks Anger in China (Apr 18th, 2009)
• Visit the world's newest Ferris wheel - in Middlesbrough (Apr 10th, 2009)
• "We shall not, we shall not be viewed!" (Apr 3rd, 2009)
• Asperger's Syndrome stress linked with hormone levels (Apr 2nd, 2009)
• RIP Microsoft Encarta (Mar 31st, 2009)
• Britain's oldest living man becomes Britain's oldest man ever (Mar 29th, 2009)
• 2008 Diagram Prize given to Fromage Frais (Mar 27th, 2009)
• Japanese Hay Fever Sufferers turn to Robots (Mar 26th, 2009)
• Nude paintings of Taoiseach Removed (Mar 24th, 2009)
• Polio Sufferer wins $22.5 million lawsuit (Mar 22nd, 2009)

For more news - including that concerning QI itself - visit our news page.