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Author Lloyd, John, 1951- compiler.

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.

Publication Info. New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 2014.

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 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Non Fiction  031.02 LLOYD    Check Shelf
 Bloomfield, Prosser Library - Adult Department  031.02 LLO    Storage
 Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - Teen  TWEEN 031 LLO    Check Shelf
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department  031.02 LLOYD    DUE 04-22-24
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Edition First American edition.
Description ix, 370 pages ; 19 cm
Note Includes index.
Summary From the creators of the hugely popular BBC quiz show QI, a brilliant sequel to their New York Times–best-selling 1,227 Quite Interesting Facts to Blow Your Socks Off.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 Mitchinson, John, 1963- compiler.
Harkin, James, 1971- compiler.
Miller, Anne (Television researcher), researcher.
Murray, Andy (Andrew Hunter), researcher.
Ptaszynski, Anna, researcher.
Bell, Alex (Television researcher), researcher.
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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