Did you kw? * 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 kwledge-all painstakingly researched and distilled to a brilliant and shocking clarity.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Ww Norton & Co
ISBN-10
0393241033
ISBN-13
9780393241037
eBay Product ID (ePID)
183101127
Product Key Features
Author
James Harkin, John Lloyd, John Mitchinson
Format
Hardback
Language
English
Subject
Trivia & Quiz Books
Type
Textbook
Dimensions
Weight
290g
Height
185mm
Width
119mm
Additional Product Features
Place of Publication
New York
Spine
28mm
Author Biography
John Lloyd is the creator of the BBC quiz panel show QI (Quite Interesting). He lives in Oxfordshire. John Mitchinson is the director of research for the BBC quiz panel show QI (Quite Interesting). He lives in Oxfordshire. James Harkin is senior researcher for QI and lives in London.