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Hardback
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Edition date
5 Oct 2017
ISBN-13
9780571339105

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The eye-popping, gob-smacking, rib-tickling phenomenon that is QI serves up a brand new selection of 1,423 facts to bowl you over.

In Einstein's words: ‘Everything should be as simple as possible, but not simpler.'

At QI's core is the astonishing fact; painstakingly researched and distilled to a brilliant and shocking clarity. Packed with all the best bits from a decade of QI, our factbooks will make you look at the universe (and your socks) in an entirely new way.

Did you know that...

Iceland imports ice cubes.

A group of ladybirds is called a loveliness

It is illegal in Saudi Arabia to name a child Sandi.

Eight billion particles of fog can fit into a teaspoon

People who read books live longer than people who don't

Prince Philip was born on a kitchen table in Corfu

Netflix's biggest competitor is sleep

Mice sigh up to 40 times an hour

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  • Handbooks, vade-mecums
  • Science
  • Miscellanea
  • Curiosities and wonders
  • Questions and answers
  • History

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John Lloyd

British television producer and writer (born 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.

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Full title
1,423 QI Facts to Bowl You Over
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Pages
384 (Open Library)
ISBN
9780571339105