1,227 Quite Interesting Facts to Blow Your Socks Off

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Synopsis
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.
Copyright:
2013

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:
9780393241914
Related ISBNs:
9780393241037
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
QI Ltd.
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Reference
Submitted By:
Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.

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