| Publisher: | W. W. Norton & Company |
| Genres: | Reference Works Books |
| Authors: | James Harkin |
| Pages: | 334 pages |
| Binding: | Hardcover |
| ISBN10: | 0393241033 |
| ISBN13: | 9780393241037 |
| Tags: | Reference Works Books, Free Books Download, epub Books Download |
| Language: | en |
| Physical Form: | Book |
| Type: | Digital |
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.
• 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.
