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Title 1,339 quite interesting facts to make your jaw drop / compiled by John Lloyd, John Mitchinson, and James Harkin, with the QI elves Anne Miller, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski, and Alex Bell.

Edition First American edition.
Publication Info. New York : W.W. Norton & Company, ©2014.
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 Nichols Adult Nonfiction  031.02 ONE    AVAILABLE
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Description ix, 370 pages ; 19 cm
Note Includes index.
Summary 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.
Subject Curiosities and wonders.
Handbooks, vade-mecums, etc.
History -- Miscellanea.
Science -- Miscellanea.
Added Author Lloyd, John, 1951-
Mitchinson, John, 1963-
Harkin, James, 1971-
Miller, Anne.
Murray, Andy (Andrew Hunter)
Ptaszynski, Anna.
Bell, Alex.
Added Title One thousand three hundred thirty-nine quite interesting facts to make your jaw drop
Thirteen hundred thirty-nine quite interesting facts to make your jaw drop
ISBN 9780393245608 (hardcover)
0393245608 (hardcover)
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