1,342 QI Facts To Leave You Flabbergasted

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By John Lloyd and John Mitchinson and James Harkin

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1,342 QI Facts To Leave You Flabbergasted by John Lloyd, John Mitchinson, and James Harkin is a captivating collection of intriguing and surprising facts. Designed to entertain and astonish readers, each fact is curated to spark curiosity and delight, providing a humorous journey through a wide range of topics. Ideal for trivia enthusiasts, this book promises hours of fun with its assortment of mind-boggling information.
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1,342 QI Facts To Leave You Flabbergasted

A new compendium of flabbergasting QI Facts.

This is an astonishing trove of the strangest, funniest, and most improbable tidbits of knowledge from the clever lot at the hugely popular BBC quiz show QI.

Description

The sock-blasting, jaw-dropping, side-swiping phenomenon that is QI serves up a sparkling new selection of 1,342 facts that will leave you flabbergasted.

1,342 QI Facts coincides with more good news from QI, as Sandi Toksvig takes over the duties as presenter on the double-BAFTA nominated TV show, and the QI Elves' podcast No Such Thing As A Fish wins its second Chortle award.

The first pencils were used to draw on sheep.

More people work for Walmart than live in Slovenia.

The beaded lacewing stuns its prey by farting on it.

The allies considered dropping glue to stick Nazi troops to the ground.

The only life on Earth for a billion years was a thick layer of slime. Scientists call it the boring billion.

On the anniversary of landing, the Mars Curiosity rover hummed 'Happy Birthday' to itself.

'Flabbergasted' was first recorded in a 1772 list of new words alongside 'bored'.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780571332465

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 03 November 2016

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Faber & Faber

Edition: Main

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 25.0mm

Width: 111.0mm

Height: 178.0mm

Weight: 293g

Pages: 368

Collections

Fiction Humour James Harkin John Lloyd John Mitchinson

About the Author

JOHN LLOYD CBE is the creator of QI, founding producer of The News Quiz, Not the Nine O'Clock News, Spitting Image and Blackadder, and the presenter of BBC Radio 4's The Museum of Curiosity. JOHN MITCHINSON, QI's Director of Research, once ran the marketing for Waterstones and now moonlights as a publisher with the book crowdfunding platform Unbound. JAMES HARKIN, QI's Head Elf, has sung karaoke with Bhutanese monks and learned how to tear a telephone directory in half as part of his work duties. He co-presents the QI Elves' podcast No Such Thing As A Fish and co-produces QI's BBC Radio 4 show The Museum of Curiosity.ANNE MILLER is a scriptwriter and researcher for QI. She writes a regular books column for Standard Issue magazine, is the Head Researcher of BBC Radio 4's The Museum of Curiosity and has two Blue Peter badges.