1,227 Quite Interesting Facts to Blow Your Socks Off

1,227 Quite Interesting Facts to Blow Your Socks Off

First American edition

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Publisher's Synopsis

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.

Book information

ISBN: 9780393241037
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Imprint: W.W. Norton and Company
Pub date:
Edition: First American edition
DEWEY: 031.02
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 352
Weight: 274g
Height: 185mm
Width: 122mm
Spine width: 33mm