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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.
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"Entertaining...elicit[s] plenty of laughs." Stevie Godson
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"Informative, astonishing and often hilarious." New York Journal of Books
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"Amusing fodder for trivia nuts." Today.com
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"You can't NOT read books like this. They're addicting." Library Journal
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"A treasure trove of factoids." Maggie Galehouse Houston Chronicle
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"Put together by John Lloyd, the creator of comedy television quiz show QI; John Mitchinson, the program’s director of research; and James Harkin, the senior researcher, the book’s disparate, seemingly random contents elicit plenty of laughs—and no wonder; these men have made careers out of finding largely nonsensical but wholly true facts with which to entertain and delight." New York Journal of Books
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A Bestseller From the creators of the hugely popular BBC quiz show and the best-selling : 1,227 mind-bending facts.
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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.
Synopsis
Did you know that andlsquo;Almostandrsquo; is the longest word in the English language with all of its letters in alphabetical order? Or that andlsquo;Stewardessesandrsquo; is the longest word you can type solely with your left hand? Or that fireflies arenandrsquo;t actually flies, theyandrsquo;re beetles? From information about words and their uses, to useful lists of things you never knew had names, palindromes, famous lines from literature and film, bizarre test answers and more, The Weird World of Words is bursting with truly oddball facts about words and language andndash; and will have you hooked from the very first page. Author Mitchell Symons was a principal writer of early editions of the board game Trivial Pursuit and is the author of over sixty books.
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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.