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.
• 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.
About the author
James Harkin is senior researcher for QI and lives in London.
Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 352 ● ISBN 9780393241914 ● File size 0.6 MB ● Publisher W. W. Norton & Company ● Country US ● Published 2013 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 7471565 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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