Synopses & Reviews
The authors of are back with even more stupefying facts. On the heels of their bestseller, John Lloyd, John Mitchinson, and James Harkin offer a trove of eclectic, enlightening, and unbelievable bytes of information culled from a vast array of sources. Did you know that: Wagner only ever wore pink silk underwear. There are 34,000 statues of Kim Il Sung in North Korea. George Orwell's French teacher was Aldous Huxley. There is a cult in Malaysia that worships a giant teapot. Prozac makes fish angry. Eighty-eight percent of adult Italians have had sex in a car. Charles Darwin's tortoise Harriet died in 2006 at the age of 176. It is impossible to whistle in a spacesuit.
Review
"You can't NOT read books like this. They're addicting." Maggie Galehouse
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"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." Houston Chronicle
Synopsis
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.
Synopsis
From the creators of the hugely popular BBC quiz show , a brilliant sequel to their -best-selling .
Synopsis
is bursting with mindboggling morsels of trivia--informative, hilarious, sometimes arcane or utterly useless, but always entertaining.
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.