"Cows Have Accents … And 1,226 Other 'Quite Interesting Facts'", NPR Weekend Edition 9/14/2013:
Did you know that cows moo in regional accents? Or that 1 in 10 European babies was conceived in an IKEA bed? Or that two-thirds of the people on Earth have never seen snow?
The BBC quiz show QI celebrates these "quite interesting" tidbits of information with obscure questions that reward the players for both correct answers and interesting ones. John Lloyd, one of the creators of the show, teamed up with QI researchers John Mitchinson and James Harkin to compile a treasure trove of factoids in 1,227 Quite Interesting Facts to Blow Your Socks Off.
I'm not sure about the Ikea-bed and snow-virgin factoids — they seem plausible, but the mere fact that the source is the BBC makes me suspicious. For some background on the cow-accent thing, with links to some other sagas of epic BBC-mediated misinformation, see "It's always silly season in the BBC Science Section", 8/26/2006.
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