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1,411 QI facts to knock you sideways : a quite interesting book by John Lloyd; John Mitchinson; James Harkin; Anne Miller, (Television researcher); Andy Murray; Anna Ptaszynski is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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1,227 QI Facts blew your socks off. 1,339 QI Facts made your jaw drop. Now the QI team return with this year's groaning sack of astonishment. Prepare to be knocked sideways... Orchids can get jetlag. Lizards can't walk and breathe at the same time. There are 177,147 ways to tie a tie. Ladybird orgasms last for 30 minutes. Traffic lights existed before cars. Sir Bruce Forsyth is four months older than sliced bread. The soil in your garden is 2 million years old.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.com. This ebook edition now includes hyperlinked page numbers which give the reader direct access to the sources on the QI website. John Lloyd devised The News Quiz and To the Manor Born for radio before moving to television to start Not the Nine O'Clock News, Spitting Image and Blackadder. John Mitchinson was the original Marketing Director of Waterstone's, became Managing Director of Cassell, where he published The Beatles, Michael Palin and Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, and now runs Unbound.

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Author
John Lloyd; John Mitchinson; James Harkin; Anne Miller, (Television researcher); Andy Murray; Anna Ptaszynski
Publisher
Faber & Faber Non Fiction
Published
2014
Language
EN
ISBN
9780571317783
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Humor, Reference, Fiction
Rating
4.1 / 5 (271 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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