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1,227 Quite Interesting Facts to Blow Your Socks Off
1227 Quite Interesting Facts to Blow Your Socks Off Author:John Lloyd, John Mitchinson, James Harkin 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 ... more »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.« less