1,339 Quite Interesting Facts to Make Your Jaw Drop
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Description
1,339 Quite Interesting Facts to Make Your Jaw Drop is bursting with mindboggling morsels of trivia--informative, hilarious, sometimes arcane or utterly useless, but always entertaining.
Did you know?
- Wagner only ever wore pink silk underwear.
- There are 34,000 statues of Kim Il Sung in North Korea.
- There is a cult in Malaysia that worships a giant teapot.
- Earthworms have five hearts.
- Your eyebrows renew themselves every 64 days.
- Charles Darwin's tortoise Harriet died in 2006 at the age of 176.
Every fact in this magnificent little volume has been researched with punctilious care in order to bring you the truth in its purest form.
Product Details
| Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
| Publish Date | September 02, 2014 |
| Pages | 384 |
| Language | English |
| Type |  Hardback |
| EAN/UPC | 9780393245608 |
| Dimensions | 7.1 X 4.5 X 1.2 inches | 0.7 pounds |
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
Addictive... Teachers may wish to use this volume to entice their students to learn and to stimulate lively discussions. This affordable purchase is recommended for high school and public libraries.-- "Library Journal"
You can't NOT read books like this. They're addicting.--Maggie Galehouse "Houston Chronicle"
You can't NOT read books like this. They're addicting.--Maggie Galehouse "Houston Chronicle"
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