The QI trio of John Lloyd, James Harkin and Anne Miller have compiled a book called “2,024 QI Facts To Stop You In Your Tracks”. Behold the fascinating anecdote elucidating David Attenborough’s influence on tennis: "The introduction of yellow tennis balls, aesthetically superior for color television, can be credited to David Attenborough during his tenure as Controller of BBC2. (Previously, they were white.)" Veteran tennis aficionados may fondly recall the era of white tenni

Cecil Beaton had only one shoot with Marilyn Monroe, which took place at the Ambassador Hotel in New York in February 1956. The actress turned up at his suite 90 minutes late and in his diary Beaton admitted that he was: “startled, then disarmed, by her lack of inhibition”. The photographer compared the actress to ‘an over-excited child asked downstairs after tea’ and added: “The initial shyness over, excitement has now got the better of her. She romps, she squeals with delig