Notices by The QI Elves (qikipedia@tooot.im)

The best selling chocolate bar in America (Hershey's) doesn't contain enough cocoa to be legally classified as "chocolate" in the UK.

(Image: SpooSpa.) https://t.co/Y7u8YJ0Csw

Up to 70% of the white sand on the beaches in the Caribbean and Hawaii is created by parrotfish pooping out algae they eat from coral reefs. One adult parrotfish can produce up to 450 kg of white sand in a year. (Image: Rickard Zerpe.) https://t.co/6zqmcUIotk

Word of the day: CONSTULT - to act stupidly together

Cats are banned on Svalbard, so the one cat on the island is registered as a fox.

The word ‘scientist’ was coined in 1834 to describe Mary Somerville not only because of the inappropriateness of the term ‘man of science’, but also because she was a polymath, writing on mathematics, physics, geology, and other fields.

For the last 30 years, a Finnish radio station has been broadcasting weekly news bulletins in Latin. They broadcast their last edition this week.
To the team behind Nuntii Latini, QI salutes you.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-48661183

Until 1979, Sweden classified homosexuality as a mental illness. That year, activists took the classification as an illness to its logical extent - Swedes called in too gay to go to work.

The ‘Mona’ in Mona Lisa comes from ‘ma donna’ - an Italian polite form of address meaning ‘madam’. Though this contraction is traditionally spelt ‘Mona’, it is often now called 'Monna Lisa' in Italian because ‘Mona’ has vulgar connotations in certain dialects. https://t.co/zg8qb5Ywwa

In 2013, a ceremony was held in Wigan, Greater Manchester to celebrate pubs that had helped to prevent night-time violence. It ended early because a brawl broke out

It is projected that in 2018, Iceland will use more electricity mining bitcoins than powering its homes.

Everybody expected the Spanish Inquisition – they were legally obliged to give 30 days’ notice.

The Bitcoin network uses more power than the whole of Serbia.

The Danish for ‘mullet’ is Bundesligahår, meaning ‘the hair of a German football player’.

J. R. R. Tolkien was rejected for a Nobel Prize in Literature on the grounds of his ‘poor storytelling’.