
Author/Contributor(s): | Lloyd, John ; Mitchinson, John ; Harkin, James |
Publisher: | W. W. Norton & Company |
Date: | 09/09/2013 |
Binding: | Hardcover |
Condition: | NEW |
- 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.