Blogathon 12/14 – it’s all good harmless fun

I love the amazing source of information that The QI Elves (@qikipedia – sorry if you’re not on the Twitter) share with us.

I spent this lunchtime amazing colleagues with snippets provided by The QI Elves*, such as:

• The average winter temperature in Sochi is 3.4c higher than the UK winter average
• In the 1904 Olympics, George Eyser won 3 gold, 2 silver and a bronze medal in gymnastics, even though he had a wooden leg
• Backpfeifengesicht is German for ‘a face that makes you want to hit it’
• There is a Causeway in Cambridge with three signs because the local council can’t decide where to put the apostrophe (Worts, Wort’s, Worts’)
• George Washington’s dentures were made from a combination of hippopotamus teeth, ivory, horse teeth, human teeth, gold, and lead
• The word ‘jumentous’ means ‘resembling horse urine’
• Peroni beer is bottled horse urine

*one of these snippets may be made up

There are not many pieces of random information that I carry about with me, ready to display my erudition, but I do love to collect extremely odd pieces of knowledge.

That, for example…

• Films on IMDB are rated out of 10, but the film This Is Spinal Tap is rated out of 11 (think about it)
• Marty Wilde had a massive European hit in 1968 (8 years after his daughter Kim was born) with a song about a small Welsh market town (Abergavenny)

But this has made me wonder…

What’s your favourite piece of information? What’s the one piece of trivia that you bring out, when you have the opportunity?

Come on, don’t be shy. I’m not going to tell anyone…