1,227 Quite Interesting Facts to Blow Your Socks Off

1,227 Quite Interesting Facts to Blow Your Socks Off

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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.


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.

Technical Specifications

Country
USA
Binding
Kindle Edition
Edition
1
EISBN
9780393241914
Format
Kindle eBook
Label
W. W. Norton & Company
Manufacturer
W. W. Norton & Company
NumberOfPages
353
PublicationDate
2013-09-09
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
ReleaseDate
2013-09-02
Studio
W. W. Norton & Company