[1] In 1886, the magazine's headquarters moved from Manchester to London[2] where it paved the way for popular journalism – most significantly, the Daily Mail was founded by Alfred Harmsworth, a contributor to Tit-Bits, and the Daily Express was launched by Arthur Pearson, who worked at Tit-Bits for five years after winning a competition to get a job on the magazine.

[4] Like a mini-encyclopedia it presented a diverse range of tit-bits of information in an easy-to-read format, with the emphasis on human interest stories concentrating on drama and sensation.

[7] During the First World War Ivor Novello won a Titbits competition to write a song soldiers could sing at the front: he penned Keep the Home Fires Burning.

[9] Examples of papers said to be imitators include: In All Things Considered by G. K. Chesterton, the author contrasts Tit-Bits with The Times, saying: "Let any honest reader... ask himself whether he would really rather be asked in the next two hours to write the front page of The Times, which is full of long leading articles, or the front page of Tit-Bits, which is full of short jokes."

Reference to the magazine is also made in James Joyce's Ulysses,[11] George Orwell's Animal Farm, C. P. Snow's The Affair,[12] James Hilton's Lost Horizon, Virginia Woolf's Moments of Being, H. G. Wells' The First Men in the Moon and Kipps, A. J. Cronin's The Stars Look Down and P. G. Wodehouse's Not George Washington.

In the closing scene of the film Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949), the protagonist Louis Mazzini (Dennis Price) is approached by a journalist (Arthur Lowe) from Tit-Bits.