[Quite Interesting Facts 02] • 1,339 QI Facts to Make Your Jaw Drop

[Quite Interesting Facts 02] • 1,339 QI Facts to Make Your Jaw Drop
Authors
Lloyd, John
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Tags
reference , humour
ISBN
9780571308965
Date
2013-11-07T00:00:00+00:00
Size
0.86 MB
Lang
en
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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.