W.W. Norton
September 2013
On Sale: September 2, 2013
352 pages ISBN: 0393241033 EAN: 9780393241037 Kindle: B00COQ6XBI Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
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?
β’ Cows moo in regional accents.
β’ The international dialing code for Russia is 007.
β’ The water in the mouth of a blue whale weighs more than its body.
β’ Pants are responsible for twice as many accidents as chain saws.
β’ Saddam Hussein's bunker was designed by the grandson of the woman who built Hitler's bunker.
β’ 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 knowledgeβall painstakingly researched and distilled to a brilliant and shocking clarity.
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