LEADER 00000nam 2200433Ii 4500 001 sky260377604 003 SKY 005 20141231195600.0 008 140623s2014 nyu f 001 0 eng 010 2014022335 020 9780393245608 (hardcover) 020 0393245608 (hardcover) 040 |dSKYRV|erda|dUtOrBLW 082 00 031.02|223 092 1 031.02|bONE 245 00 1,339 quite interesting facts to make your jaw drop / |ccompiled by John Lloyd, John Mitchinson, and James Harkin, with the QI elves Anne Miller, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski, and Alex Bell. 246 3 One thousand three hundred thirty-nine quite interesting facts to make your jaw drop 246 3 Thirteen hundred thirty-nine quite interesting facts to make your jaw drop 250 First American edition. 264 1 New York :|bW.W. Norton & Company,|c©2014. 300 ix, 370 pages ;|c19 cm 336 text|btxt|2rdacontent. 337 unmediated|bn|2rdamedia. 338 volume|bnc|2rdacarrier. 500 Includes index. 520 1,339 Quite Interesting Facts to Make Your Jaw Drop is bursting with mindboggling morsels of trivia informative, hilarious, sometimes arcane or utterly useless, but always entertaining. Did you know? Wagner only ever wore pink silk underwear. There are 34,000 statues of Kim Il Sung in North Korea. There is a cult in Malaysia that worships a giant teapot. Earthworms have five hearts. Your eyebrows renew themselves every 64 days. Charles Darwin's tortoise Harriet died in 2006 at the age of 176. Every fact in this magnificent little volume has been researched with punctilious care in order to bring you the truth in its purest form. 650 0 Curiosities and wonders. 650 0 Handbooks, vade-mecums, etc. 650 0 History|vMiscellanea. 650 0 Science|vMiscellanea. 700 1 Lloyd, John,|d1951- 700 1 Mitchinson, John,|d1963- 700 1 Harkin, James,|d1971- 700 1 Miller, Anne. 700 1 Murray, Andy|q(Andrew Hunter) 700 1 Ptaszynski, Anna. 700 1 Bell, Alex.
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