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QI questions answered - from who alphabetised the alphabet to can you ever just be whelmed?

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Who decided on the order of the alphabet? And why do we say someone has a chip on their shoulder? If there are any bizarre questions you’ve always wanted answered, you may find them in a new book by the “elves” who’ve spent years helping Stephen Fry and Sandi Toksvig on TV fave QI.

Here’s our pick of the best– along with some questions you never knew you wanted answers to. Until now… Who was the first person to have a chip on their shoulder? It surfaced in the US in the early 19th Century.

Punchy young men spoiling for a fight would strut around town with a chip of wood on their shoulder, daring people to try to knock it off.

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