The QI App
The QI App is your portal into a world of Interestingness. It allows you to browse the QI books in bite-sized chunks, submit your own facts and rate other people's. On Monday 28th February, it was the 5th best-selling iPhone app in the world, out of 351,000 apps available. So what are you waiting for? It's available now from iTunes.
Please note, the QI App is too large to downlad over the air, so you will require a wi-fi connection or the ability to sync with iTunes.
The QI App
App users have spent the last seven days scouring the Earth for the most interesting nuggets and have been rating each other's efforts. Here are the 10 best and worst items:
Top ten facts of this week
| 1 | All Best Before dates on packets of crisps manufactured in the UK fall on a Saturday. - Stuart Baker |
| 2 | Coke without colouring is green. - Francine |
| 3 | Hippo milk is pink. - JoeMang |
| 4 | The biggest tyre manufacturer in the world is Lego. - Mo |
| 5 | The first man to survive going over Niagara Falls in a barrel later died from slipping on an orange peel. - Allen G M |
| 6 | One of the most searched for terms on bing.com is "google". - Sharkland |
| 7 | A rainbow is circular when viewed from above. - Scott |
| 8 | James Garfield, 20th president of the USA, could simultaneously write Greek with one hand and Latin with the other. - Molly Cule |
| 9 | It would take a person more than 400 years to watch all the videos on YouTube. - Jack |
| 10 | The planet Neptune orbits the Sun so slowly, it hasn't even completed one orbital period since its discovery in 1846. - Jimmy V |
Top ten worst facts of this week
| 1 | In the 2001 census, Ellesmere Port in Cheshire had a population of 64,100. |
| 2 | Tiffany's 'I Think We're Alone Now' was knocked off the #1 position in the charts by Kylie Minogue's 'I Should Be So Lucky'. |
| 3 | A fish has a memory of 3 seconds. |
| 4 | Corvus is Latin for crow. |
| 5 | Taxi drivers do not have to carry a bale of hay in the boot of their cabs to feed their now non-existent horses, as popular wisdom has it. |
| 6 | Did you know that geocentric and egocentric are anagrams? |
| 7 | Several episodes of the original Upstairs Downstairs were directed by the same man who directed The Professionals and The New Avengers - multi talented Australian film maker, Raymond Menmuir. |
| 8 | A ‘gaberdine’ is a loose cloak, and traditionally a Jewish item of clothing. |
| 9 | David Beckham was once a Cub Scout. |
| 10 | Creme de la Mer by Estee Lauder is a rare and expensive face cream and a must-have accessory for Hollywood luminaries such as Sharon Stone, Demi Moore and Cher. There is a waiting list. |
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