No. 261.

In 2008, the Panel Prize of the Edinburgh Comedy Awards went to 'every comedian on the Fringe for making it happen'.

(Source: http://www.comedyawards.co.uk/panelprize.asp.)

No. 260.

There were riots when the fez was banned in Turkey in 1925.

(Source: QIkipedia Twitter feed.)

No. 259.

One of the working titles for Citizen Kane for John Q.

(Source: IMDB.)

No. 258.

Casablanca was adapted from a play called Everybody Comes to Rick's.

(Source: IMDB.)

No. 257.

Olympian gymnast Beth Tweddle has had a train named after her.

(Source: Alan Carr's Summertime Specstacular 2. Verified by http://www.heart.co.uk/wrexham/news/local/beth-tweddle-train/.)

No. 256.

In November 1997, Desperate Dan, the Dandy comic book character, struck oil, then sailed off with The Spice Girls.

(Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/aug/13/oldest-comic-the-dandy-faces-closure.)

No. 255.

The longest Olympic marathon finishing time is fifty-four years, eight months, six days, thirty-two minutes and 20.3 seconds. The Japanese runner Shizo Kanakuri fell asleep after taking a break close to his nineteenth mile during the 1912 Stockholm games, then woke up the next day. He was invited back to complete it in 1976 when he was sixty-seven.

(Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/qi/9472902/QI-Quite-interesting-facts-about-the-Olympics.html.)