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.
• 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.
关于作者
James Harkin is senior researcher for QI and lives in London.购买此电子书可免费获赠一本!
语言 英语 ● 格式 EPUB ● 网页 352 ● ISBN 9780393241914 ● 文件大小 0.6 MB ● 出版者 W. W. Norton & Company ● 国家 US ● 发布时间 2013 ● 下载 24 个月 ● 货币 EUR ● ID 7471565 ● 复制保护 Adobe DRM
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