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A Quite Interesting account from the team behind the BBC show QI.
There are about 6,500 species of mammal, 15,000 species of ant and 200,000 species of wasp.
Tonight at 9pm on BBC Two there's a brand new episode of QI all about W Animals starring Sandi, Alan, Nabil Abdulrashid, Sam Campbell, Holly Walsh and several chickens!
Tonight at 9pm on BBC Two there's a brand new episode of QI all about W Animals starring Sandi, Alan, Nabil Abdulrashid, Sam Campbell, Holly Walsh and several chickens!
January 6, 2026 at 11:56 AM
There are about 6,500 species of mammal, 15,000 species of ant and 200,000 species of wasp.
Tonight at 9pm on BBC Two there's a brand new episode of QI all about W Animals starring Sandi, Alan, Nabil Abdulrashid, Sam Campbell, Holly Walsh and several chickens!
Tonight at 9pm on BBC Two there's a brand new episode of QI all about W Animals starring Sandi, Alan, Nabil Abdulrashid, Sam Campbell, Holly Walsh and several chickens!
Wonder Woman was created by the inventor of the lie detector.
Tonight on QI we're looking at everything WEIRD AND WONDERFUL in a brand new ep starring Sandi, Alan, Melanie Bracewell, Roisin Conaty and Patrick Kielty. BBC Two, 9pm.
Tonight on QI we're looking at everything WEIRD AND WONDERFUL in a brand new ep starring Sandi, Alan, Melanie Bracewell, Roisin Conaty and Patrick Kielty. BBC Two, 9pm.
December 16, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Wonder Woman was created by the inventor of the lie detector.
Tonight on QI we're looking at everything WEIRD AND WONDERFUL in a brand new ep starring Sandi, Alan, Melanie Bracewell, Roisin Conaty and Patrick Kielty. BBC Two, 9pm.
Tonight on QI we're looking at everything WEIRD AND WONDERFUL in a brand new ep starring Sandi, Alan, Melanie Bracewell, Roisin Conaty and Patrick Kielty. BBC Two, 9pm.
Bobcats climb cacti to escape predators. Thanks to their tough, thickly-padded paws, they don’t get injured by the spines.
December 3, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Bobcats climb cacti to escape predators. Thanks to their tough, thickly-padded paws, they don’t get injured by the spines.
Your heartbeat will synchronise with your date if the date is going well.
Tonight we're looking at WOOING in a brand new loved-up episode of QI with Sandi, Alan, Maisie Adam, Larry Dean and Rosie Jones! BBC Two, 9pm. 💕
Tonight we're looking at WOOING in a brand new loved-up episode of QI with Sandi, Alan, Maisie Adam, Larry Dean and Rosie Jones! BBC Two, 9pm. 💕
December 2, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Your heartbeat will synchronise with your date if the date is going well.
Tonight we're looking at WOOING in a brand new loved-up episode of QI with Sandi, Alan, Maisie Adam, Larry Dean and Rosie Jones! BBC Two, 9pm. 💕
Tonight we're looking at WOOING in a brand new loved-up episode of QI with Sandi, Alan, Maisie Adam, Larry Dean and Rosie Jones! BBC Two, 9pm. 💕
Freddy Mercury’s original title for ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ was ‘The Cowboy Song’.
Tonight we're headed to the WILD WEST in a brand new episode with Sandi, Alan, Eshaan Akbar, Jo Brand and Alex Brooker! 🤠
Tonight we're headed to the WILD WEST in a brand new episode with Sandi, Alan, Eshaan Akbar, Jo Brand and Alex Brooker! 🤠
November 25, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Freddy Mercury’s original title for ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ was ‘The Cowboy Song’.
Tonight we're headed to the WILD WEST in a brand new episode with Sandi, Alan, Eshaan Akbar, Jo Brand and Alex Brooker! 🤠
Tonight we're headed to the WILD WEST in a brand new episode with Sandi, Alan, Eshaan Akbar, Jo Brand and Alex Brooker! 🤠
Thresher sharks can jump up to six metres out of the water. (📷: Steve Momot)
November 24, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Thresher sharks can jump up to six metres out of the water. (📷: Steve Momot)
The Voyager probe, launched in 1977 to explore beyond our Solar System, contains this picture of a balding man eating a slice of toast.
November 20, 2025 at 12:09 PM
The Voyager probe, launched in 1977 to explore beyond our Solar System, contains this picture of a balding man eating a slice of toast.
Swedish writer Fritiof Nilsson Piraten’s gravestone inscription says: ‘Here below are the ashes of a man who had the habit of putting everything off until tomorrow. But in his last days he improved, and did actually die on 31 January 1972’. (📷: jorchr)
November 19, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Swedish writer Fritiof Nilsson Piraten’s gravestone inscription says: ‘Here below are the ashes of a man who had the habit of putting everything off until tomorrow. But in his last days he improved, and did actually die on 31 January 1972’. (📷: jorchr)
Cloudflare has a wall of lava lamps in their San Francisco office to help with their entropy-gathering system. (📸HaeB)
November 18, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Cloudflare has a wall of lava lamps in their San Francisco office to help with their entropy-gathering system. (📸HaeB)
Lemurs’ vaginas have no permanent opening. For 24 to 72 hours in July of a good year, their vagina will open, there’s a brief frenzy of mating and then they close up again.
November 17, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Lemurs’ vaginas have no permanent opening. For 24 to 72 hours in July of a good year, their vagina will open, there’s a brief frenzy of mating and then they close up again.
Chinese slang for a combover is ‘The local authorities provide support for the central government’. (📷: Nesnad)
November 10, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Chinese slang for a combover is ‘The local authorities provide support for the central government’. (📷: Nesnad)
In 1899, G.E. Dudley patented an electrical anti-masturbation device for men that consisted of a tube connected to a bell that would ring if the penis, inserted in the tube, became erect.
November 4, 2025 at 11:11 AM
In 1899, G.E. Dudley patented an electrical anti-masturbation device for men that consisted of a tube connected to a bell that would ring if the penis, inserted in the tube, became erect.
The first paperback vending machine was installed at Charing Cross Station in 1937 by Penguin books. They called it the ‘Penguincubator’. (📷: STML)
October 29, 2025 at 10:28 AM
The first paperback vending machine was installed at Charing Cross Station in 1937 by Penguin books. They called it the ‘Penguincubator’. (📷: STML)
Tonight at 9pm on BBC Two we'll be looking at WINGS AND WHEELS in a brand new episode with Sandi, Alan, Aisling Bea, Desiree Burch and Hank Green.
October 28, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Tonight at 9pm on BBC Two we'll be looking at WINGS AND WHEELS in a brand new episode with Sandi, Alan, Aisling Bea, Desiree Burch and Hank Green.
Baby blue whales put on 4kgs an hour until they’re 8 months old. 🐋
Tonight at 9pm we'll be looking at lots more whale facts in 'Wales, Whales and Wails', a BRAND NEW QI episode with Sandi, Alan, Elis James, Griff Rhys Jones and Kiri Pritchard-McLean!
Tonight at 9pm we'll be looking at lots more whale facts in 'Wales, Whales and Wails', a BRAND NEW QI episode with Sandi, Alan, Elis James, Griff Rhys Jones and Kiri Pritchard-McLean!
October 21, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Baby blue whales put on 4kgs an hour until they’re 8 months old. 🐋
Tonight at 9pm we'll be looking at lots more whale facts in 'Wales, Whales and Wails', a BRAND NEW QI episode with Sandi, Alan, Elis James, Griff Rhys Jones and Kiri Pritchard-McLean!
Tonight at 9pm we'll be looking at lots more whale facts in 'Wales, Whales and Wails', a BRAND NEW QI episode with Sandi, Alan, Elis James, Griff Rhys Jones and Kiri Pritchard-McLean!
QI Fans! Brand new QI Series W launches TOMORROW NIGHT at 9pm on BBC Two and iPlayer.
October 20, 2025 at 1:30 PM
QI Fans! Brand new QI Series W launches TOMORROW NIGHT at 9pm on BBC Two and iPlayer.
The vertebrate with the smallest brain-to-body weight ratio is the bony-eared assfish.
October 17, 2025 at 10:00 AM
The vertebrate with the smallest brain-to-body weight ratio is the bony-eared assfish.
Ponyhenge is a collection of rocking horses in an open field in Lincoln, Massachusetts.
No one knows where the ponies come from, or who is donating them - but the herd continues to grow.
(Image: Jenn Forman Orth)
No one knows where the ponies come from, or who is donating them - but the herd continues to grow.
(Image: Jenn Forman Orth)
October 6, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Ponyhenge is a collection of rocking horses in an open field in Lincoln, Massachusetts.
No one knows where the ponies come from, or who is donating them - but the herd continues to grow.
(Image: Jenn Forman Orth)
No one knows where the ponies come from, or who is donating them - but the herd continues to grow.
(Image: Jenn Forman Orth)
Word of the Day: BLOBBERY - a garden made of shrubs and bushes shorn to look like blobs. (📷: Paolo)
October 6, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Word of the Day: BLOBBERY - a garden made of shrubs and bushes shorn to look like blobs. (📷: Paolo)
The scientific term for dog zoomies is Frenetic Random Activity Periods.
September 30, 2025 at 1:57 PM
The scientific term for dog zoomies is Frenetic Random Activity Periods.
QI XL has been nominated for a TV Choice Award in the Best Entertainment Show category! If you wanted to vote for us, which would be lovely, you can do so at www.tvchoicemagazine.co.uk/vote/
September 30, 2025 at 11:18 AM
QI XL has been nominated for a TV Choice Award in the Best Entertainment Show category! If you wanted to vote for us, which would be lovely, you can do so at www.tvchoicemagazine.co.uk/vote/
Samuel Pepys' diary entry for this day in 1665 recalls a stay at Mrs Clerke's house, where he left a surprise (or two) in the chimney...
September 28, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Samuel Pepys' diary entry for this day in 1665 recalls a stay at Mrs Clerke's house, where he left a surprise (or two) in the chimney...
In 1879, ‘Punch’ predicted video calls: In this cartoon, parents ‘set up an electric camera obscura over their bedroom mantel-piece, and gladden their eyes with the sight of their Children at the Antipodes, and converse gaily with them through the wire’.
September 26, 2025 at 12:55 PM
In 1879, ‘Punch’ predicted video calls: In this cartoon, parents ‘set up an electric camera obscura over their bedroom mantel-piece, and gladden their eyes with the sight of their Children at the Antipodes, and converse gaily with them through the wire’.
A thermal image map of Saturn's moon Mimas looks remarkably like Pac-Man eating a dot. (Image: NASA/JPL/SSI)
September 22, 2025 at 10:54 AM
A thermal image map of Saturn's moon Mimas looks remarkably like Pac-Man eating a dot. (Image: NASA/JPL/SSI)
What NOT to do if a grenade is thrown at you.
September 19, 2025 at 6:33 PM
What NOT to do if a grenade is thrown at you.