Download 1,227 Quite Interesting Facts to Blow Your Socks Off PDF

2013
Title 1,227 Quite Interesting Facts to Blow Your Socks Off
Authors
Genres Funny Books & Stories TV Tie-in Humour
Publisher W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 9780393241037
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.
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