1,339 Quite Interesting Facts to Make Your Jaw Drop - Hardcover

Lloyd, John; Mitchinson, John; Harkin, James

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393245608 ISBN 13: 9780393245608

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2014

Synopsis

From the creators of the hugely popular BBC quiz show QI, a brilliant sequel to their New York Times–best-selling 1,227 Quite Interesting Facts to Blow Your Socks Off.

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.

About this title

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.

Review:

“You can’t NOT read books like this. They’re addicting.”
- Maggie Galehouse, Houston Chronicle

“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

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0393245608
• ISBN 13: 9780393245608
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 384