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Full Title

1,227 Quite Interesting Facts to Blow Your Socks Off

Author(s)

John Lloyd, John Mitchinson, James Harkin

Edition
ISBN

9780393241914, 9780393241037

Publisher

W. W. Norton & Company

Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

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. 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.