James Harkin – 1,227 Quite Interesting Facts to Blow Your Socks Off
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.
- Wydawnictwo:
- W. W. Norton & Company
- tytuł oryginału:
- 1,227 Quite Interesting Facts to Blow Your Socks Off
- data wydania:
- 9 września 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780393241037
- liczba stron:
- 352
- kategoria:
- Literatura popularnonaukowa
- język:
- angielski