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1,227 Quite Interesting Facts to Blow Your Socks Off

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A New York Times Bestseller

From the creators of the hugely popular BBC quiz show QI and the best-selling Book of General Ignorance: 1,227 mind-bending facts.

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• 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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    • Library Journal

      July 1, 2013

      The authors of this fun-facts roundup are affiliated with the BBC quiz panel show QI (Quite Interesting), which has inspired several tie-ins already, including The Book of General Ignorance (LJ 8/07) and The Second Book of General Ignorance, (LJ 9/15/11), the latter employing a question-and-answer format to address such burning topics as how to milk a yak. As its title suggests, this new work is less structured in approach, although an index helps to discover such nuggets as "Mushrooms are more closely related to humans than [to] plants." No source material is cited for these quite interesting facts, but perhaps that's not quite the point. VERDICT Amusing fodder for trivia nuts.

      Copyright 2013 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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