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.

About the Author
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.

Reviews
"Entertaining...elicit[s] plenty of laughs." -- Stevie Godson - New York Journal of Books
"Informative, astonishing and often hilarious." -- Today.com
"Amusing fodder for trivia nuts." -- Library Journal
"You can't NOT read books like this. They're addicting." -- Maggie Galehouse - Houston Chronicle
"A treasure trove of factoids." -- National Public Radio, Weekend Edition



Book Information
ISBN 9780393241037
Author John Lloyd
Format Hardback
Page Count 352
Imprint WW Norton & Co
Publisher WW Norton & Co
Weight(grams) 275g
Dimensions(mm) 185mm * 122mm * 33mm