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James Harkin, John Lloyd, John Mitchinson (Beteiligte)

1,339 QI Facts To Make Your Jaw Drop


A Quite Interesting Book
2014. 368 S. 7.795276 in
Verlag/Jahr: FABER & FABER, LONDON 2014
ISBN: 0-571-30897-X (057130897X)
Neue ISBN: 978-0-571-30897-2 (9780571308972)

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1,399 QI Facts To Make Your Jaw Drop by John Lloyd, John Mitchinson and James Harkin is packed with even more interesting facts than the bestselling sensation - 1,227 QI Facts To Blow Your Socks Off.
Following the sensational success of 1,227 QI Facts to Blow Your Socks Off, the QI team returns with a fresh stack of facts to astonish and enlighten.

Pigs suffer from anorexia.
Wagner always wore pink silk underwear.
Rugby School´s first official rugby kit in 1871 included a bow tie.
Lord Kitchener had four spaniels called Shot, Bang, Miss and Damn.
It is impossible to whistle in a spacesuit.
J. K Rowling has no middle name.
The first computer mouse was made of wood.

If there are any facts you don´t believe, or if you want to know more about them, all the sources can be found on QI´s website.
Lloyd, John
John Lloyd CBE is the creator of QI and founding producer of The News Quiz, Not the Nine O´Clock News, Spitting Image, Blackadder and No Such Thing As The News.

Mitchinson, John
John Mitchinson is from the world of books. The original Marketing Director of Waterstone´s, he became Managing Director of Cassell, where he published The Beatles, Michael Palin and Brewer´s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, and now runs Unbound. He´s with Einstein: ´There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.´

Harkin, James
James Harkin is QI´s Senior Researcher and Script Editor and is one of the presenters of the number one podcast No Such Thing As A Fish.