1,227 Quite Interesting Facts to Blow Your Socks Off
1,227 Quite Interesting Facts to Blow Your Socks Off
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A New York Times Bestseller From the creators of the hugely popular BBC quiz show QI and the best-selling Book of General Ignorance: 1,227 mind-bending facts.
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1,227 Quite Interesting Facts to Blow Your Socks Off by John Lloyd
Did you know? • Cows moo in regional accents. • The international dialing code for Russia is 007. • The water in the mouth of a blue whale weighs more than its body. • Pants are responsible for twice as many accidents as chain saws. • Saddam Hussein's bunker was designed by the grandson of the woman who built Hitler's bunker. • Heroin was originally sold as cough medicine. 1,227 Quite Interesting Facts to Blow Your Socks Off is a trove of the strangest, funniest, and most improbable tidbits of knowledge—all painstakingly researched and distilled to a brilliant and shocking clarity.
Entertaining..elicit[s] plenty of laughs. -- Stevie Godson - New York Journal of Books
Informative, astonishing and often hilarious. -- Today.com
Amusing fodder for trivia nuts. -- Library Journal
You can't NOT read books like this. They're addicting. -- Maggie Galehouse - Houston Chronicle
A treasure trove of factoids. -- National Public Radio, Weekend Edition
Informative, astonishing and often hilarious. -- Today.com
Amusing fodder for trivia nuts. -- Library Journal
You can't NOT read books like this. They're addicting. -- Maggie Galehouse - Houston Chronicle
A treasure trove of factoids. -- National Public Radio, Weekend Edition
John Lloyd is the creator of the BBC quiz panel show QI (Quite Interesting). He lives in Oxfordshire. John Mitchinson is the director of research for the BBC quiz panel show QI (Quite Interesting). He lives in Oxfordshire. James Harkin is senior researcher for QI and lives in London.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780393241037 |
| ISBN 10 | 0393241033 |
| Title | 1,227 Quite Interesting Facts to Blow Your Socks Off |
| Author | John Lloyd |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | WW Norton & Co |
| Year published | 2013-12-20 |
| Number of pages | 352 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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