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 | The first man to survive going over Niagara Falls in a barrel later died from slipping on an orange peel. - Allen G M |
| 2 | Fourteen years before the Titanic sank, novelist Morgan Robertson published 'Futility', a story about a luxury ocean liner that struck an iceberg on an April night. The name of his ship - The Titan. - WeFlyOfCourse |
| 3 | All Best Before dates on packets of crisps manufactured in the UK fall on a Saturday. - Stuart Baker |
| 4 | Coke without colouring is green. - Francine |
| 5 | Hippo milk is pink. - JoeMang |
| 6 | When threatened, the hairy frog (or "horror frog") intentionally breaks its own bones to produce claws that puncture through the frog's toe pads to become defensive weapons. - SoopaBoosh |
| 7 | Watches in watch adverts always show the time 10:10 (and normally 36 seconds). This is an industry standard and gives the watch a pleasing aesthetic 'happy' face. - Munkey |
| 8 | 31 Britons have died since 1996 by watering their Christmas trees whilst the lights are still plugged in. - Paul |
| 9 | 31 Britons have died since 1996 by watering their Christmas trees whilst the lights are still plugged in. - Mark c |
| 10 | The biggest tyre manufacturer in the world is Lego. - Mo |
Top ten worst facts of this week
| 1 | In the 2001 census, Ellesmere Port in Cheshire had a population of 64,100. |
| 2 | A fish has a memory of 3 seconds. |
| 3 | 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'. |
| 4 | David Beckham was once a Cub Scout. |
| 5 | A ‘gaberdine’ is a loose cloak, and traditionally a Jewish item of clothing. |
| 6 | Corvus is Latin for crow. |
| 7 | 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. |
| 8 | 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. |
| 9 | Did you know that geocentric and egocentric are anagrams? |
| 10 | Death metal has categories such as Technical Death Metal, Brutal Death Metal, Death/Doom, Deathrash and Grindcore. |
Do you disagree with any of these facts? Or have anything else to add about our App? Then make your way to our talk forum here.