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Item Details
Title:
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1,227 QUITE INTERESTING FACTS TO BLOW YOUR SOCKS OFF
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By: |
John Lloyd, John Mitchinson, James Harkin |
Format: |
Hardback |
List price:
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£11.99 |
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ISBN 10: |
0393241033 |
ISBN 13: |
9780393241037 |
Publisher: |
WW NORTON & CO |
Pub. date: |
20 December, 2013 |
Pages: |
352 |
Description: |
First published in Great Britain in 2012 by Faber and Faber under the title 1,227 QI facts to blow your socks off. |
Synopsis: |
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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US |
Imprint: |
WW Norton & Co |
Returns: |
Returnable |
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