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41 " Since 1980, the salaries of executives in FTSE 100 companies have risen by 4,000% compared to 300% for their employees. "
― John Lloyd , 1,227 QI Facts to Blow Your Socks Off
42 " Only 2% of women describe themselves as beautiful. "
43 " Kummerspeck (“grief bacon”) is German for the weight put on from eating too much when feeling sorry for yourself. "
44 " Robert Burns was never called Rabbie or Robbie—though he did occasionally call himself Spunkie. "
45 " The Roman name for Paris was Lutetia, which translates into English as ‘Slough’. "
46 " There are over 1,200 species of bat in the world and not one of them is blind. There are 4,800 species of frog in the world but only one of them goes ‘ribbit’. Eight times as many people belong to the National Trust as to the Conservative, Labour and Liberal Democrat parties combined. Every human being starts out life as an arsehole: it’s the first part of the body to form in the womb. "
47 " Kangaroos have three vaginas. "
48 " It takes between 70,000 and 150,000 crocuses to make 2 pounds of saffron. "
49 " A single sperm contains 37.5 MB of DNA information. One ejaculation represents a data transfer of 15,875 GB, "
50 " The opening lines of Jerome K. Jerome’s Three Men In A Boat are: ‘There were four of us. "
51 " Soccer’ is not an Americanism. It’s short for ‘Association Football’ and was popularised by Charles Wreford-Brown, captain of the English national team 1894–5. "
52 " The Victorians made tiepins out of badgers’ penis bones. Some "
53 " Schimpf-los "
54 " You are 14% more likely to die on your birthday than any other day. 51 "