John Lloyd & John Mitchinson 
1, 227 Quite Interesting Facts to Blow Your Socks Off 

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.

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