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1,227 Quite Interesting Facts To Blow Your Socks Off
John Mitchinson, John Lloyd
W.W. Norton
September 2013
On Sale: September 2, 2013
352 pages ISBN: 0393241033 EAN: 9780393241037 Kindle: B00COQ6XBI Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction
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.
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