1,227 Quite Interesting Facts to Blow Your Socks Off

ISBN-13:	9780393241037
Publisher:	Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date:	09/09/2013
Pages:	352
Sales rank:	836,342
Product dimensions:	4.70(w) x 7.10(h) x 1.40(d)

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.