1,227 QI Facts to Blow Your Socks Off

Everyone is entitled to their own opinions,
but they are not entitled
to their own facts.

A language
dies every 14 days.

The US tax code
is four times as long
as the complete works of Shakespeare.

Over 100 billion neutrinos
pass unnoticed through your head
every second.

Leonardo da Vinci
worked on the Mona Lisa for 15 years.
By the time he died in 1519,
he still didn’t consider it finished.

Italy’s biggest business is the Mafia.
It turns over $178 billion a year
and accounts for 7% of GDP

Everyone is entitled to their own opinions,
but they are not entitled
to their own facts.
DANIEL PATRICK MOYNIHAN (1927–2003)

There are enough
diamonds in existence
to give everyone on the planet

The average person walks
the equivalent of three times
around the world
in a lifetime.

The human heart
pumps enough blood in a lifetime
to fill three supertankers.