New episode of my #podcast out now

#christmas quiz time? Bam it up a notch with a bonus round from me!

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Signing copies of my #book @waterstones.bsky.social Liverpool One 26th of November

I'm signing copies of my #book in @waterstones.bsky.social Belfast today from 10-12

Himself. Tomorrow.

I'm on virgin ones six o'clock show for Irish peeps

Signing copies of my #book @waterstones.bsky.social Oxford next month

Get your questions ready!

Signing copies of my #book in @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social on Parnell St in #dublin on Wednesday 20th in the morning from 10-12.

I'll be signing my #book in @waterstones.bsky.social Liverpool on the 26th of November if anyone wants to pop by at lunchtime

My new book!

Fun fact: Domino's pizza in Japan once trialled delivering pizza by reindeer at Christmas time

Fun fact: lemons are not a naturally occurring fruit. They were created by selective crossing of plants by humans. So life, in fact, did not give us lemons

Fun fact: there is a species of fish called Slippery Dick. Halichoeres bivittatus is a type of wrasse that lives in the western Atlantic

Fun fact: there was more CGI in Forrest Gump than in Jurassic Park

Fun fact: you can hear a blue whale's heartbeat from 3km away

Fun fact: until the 1960s, the most reliable way to test if a woman was pregnant was to inject her urine into a frog.

Fun fact: the Lindsey Creek sequoia tree that fell in a storm in 1905, weighed over 3 million kg

Fun fact: Salvador Dali liked to pay for his restaurant bills by cheque. He was draw a doodle on the back of them so people would keep the cheque and never cash it

Fun fact: Viagra added to the water in a vase of cut flowers can stop them from wilting

Fun fact: Elvis was naturally blonde. He died it darker, even using black shoe polish on it on occasion

Fun fact: In 2007, Scotland spent £125,000 devising a new national slogan. The winning entry was: “Welcome to Scotland.”

Fun fact: the resolution of the human eye is about 576 megapixels

Fun fact: humans landed on the moon before they thought to put wheels on suitcases. Wheeled luggage wasn't invented until 1970

Fun fact: the average person in the UK will in their lifetime spend 33 years sleeping, 13 years working, 5 years eating and only about 1 year in class in school

Fun fact: Woody Harrelson's father was a hitman

Fun fact: in ancient Greece redheadd were believed to turn into vampires after they died

Fun fact: the Netherlands was at war with the Isles of Scilly for over 300 years, a war that resulted in zero deaths

Fun fact: the US movie industry moved to Hollywood in order to escape being sued by Thomas Edison for using his patented technology

Fun fact: in ancient Greece wearing skirts was considered manly and men who wore trousers were mocked for being effeminate

Fun fact: every year more than 20 thousand tonnes of dust are blown from the Sahara desert to the Amazon rainforest

Fun fact: Nintendo was founded while Jack the Ripper was at large in London

Fun fact: the Moon is considered to be part of the diocese of Orlando, with the bishop of Orlando also being the bishop of the moon.

Fun fact: when Halo 3 was released in 2007, it caused a 27% drop in cinema box office receipts that weekend.

Fun fact: we have mapped more of the surface of Mars than we have of Earth. Only about 5% of our oceans floor has been mapped, leaving over half our planet surface unexplored while 100% of Mars has been mapped

Fun fact: 7% of Americans think that chocolate milk comes from brown cows, that's about 16 million people.

Fun fact: it took about 120 years for the world population to go from 1 billion to 2 billion, but it only took 11 years to go from 7 to 8 billion* * I know this isn't a fun fact, I'm just kind of committed to that now. No need to point it out

Fun fact: the USA is the 3rd most populous country in the world, but it is more than 1 billion people behind second place

Fun fact: “Schnapsidee” is the German word for a ridiculous idea that only sounds good when you’re drunk.

Fun fact: while he was president, Ulysses S Grant received a speeding fine for riding too fast on his horse

Fun fact: the licence to run a hotdog stand in Central Park in New York is over $300,000

Fun fact: Henry Garnet, who was implicated in the Gunpowder Plot, was executed and it is widely believed that his skin was used to cover a book. The book sold at auction for over £5000 in 2007

Fun fact: about 1 million dogs in the USA are named beneficiaries in their owners wills

Fun fact: In Israel, it is illegal to bring bears to the beach.

Fun fact: cling film was first invented as a way to protect tablecloths from red wine spills