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Name: 1,227 QI Facts To Blow Your Socks Off
ISBN: 9780571297917

By John Lloyd, John Mitchinson, James Harkin

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Format: Hardback
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Edition date: 1 Nov 2012
ISBN-13: 9780571297917

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About this book

QI is the smartest comedy show on British television, but few people know that we're also a major legal hit in Australia, New Zealand, Israel and Africa and an illegal one on BitTorrent. We also write books and newspaper columns; run a thriving website, a Facebook page, a Twitter feed; and produce an iPhone App and a sister Radio 4 programme. At the core of what we do is the astonishing fact - painstakingly researched and distilled to a brilliant and shocking clarity. In Einstein's words: 'Everything should be as simple as possible, but not simpler.'

Did you know that: cows moo in regional accents; the entire internet weighs less than a grain of sand; the dialling code from Britain to Russia is 007; potatoes have more chromosomes than human beings; the London Underground has made more money from its famous map than it has from running trains; Tintin is called Tantan in Japanese because TinTin is pronounced 'Chin chin' and means penis; the water in the mouth of a blue whale weighs more than its body; Scotland has twice as many pandas as Conservative MPs; Saddam's bunker was designed by the grandson of the woman who built Hitler's bunker; Under the Wildlife and Countryside Act of 1981, it is explicitly illegal in Britain to use a machinegun to kill a hedgehog.

1,227 QI Facts To Blow Your Socks Off will make you look at the universe (and your socks) in an alarming new way.

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Curiosities and wonders
History
Miscellanea
Science
History, miscellanea
Science, miscellanea

Other editions & translations

1,227 QI Facts to Blow Your Socks Off Faber & Faber, Limited · 2017 · English
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1,227 Quite Interesting Facts to Blow Your Socks Off Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W. · 2013 · English
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1,227 QI Facts to Blow Your Socks Off Faber & Faber, Limited · 2013 · English
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1,227 Qi Facts Faber & Faber, Limited · 2012 · English
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1,227 QI Facts to Blow Your Socks Off Faber & Faber, Limited · 2012 · English
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About the authors

John Lloyd

British television producer and writer (born 1951)

Born: 30 September 1951

John Hardress Wilfred Lloyd is an English producer and writer of television and radio comedy. His television work includes Not the Nine O'Clock News, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Blackadder, Spitting Image and QI. He presents BBC Radio 4's The Museum of Curiosity.