Book of The Week: 1,327 Quite Interesting Facts to Blow Your Socks Off

All I can say about this book is that it is fun. So just go read it. And don't lose your socks.

 

Title: 1,327 Quite Interesting Facts to Blow Your Socks Off

Authors:  John Lloyd, John Mitchinson, &  James Harkin

 Synopsis:

From the creators of the hugely popular BBC quiz show QI and the best-selling Book of General Ignorance: 1,227 mind-bending facts. Did you know?

• 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.