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Join the qi team for an offroad safari into the wildlife, past one hundred of the most unusual members of the animal kingdom, armed with illuminating illustrations and diagrams by award. Weve collected our most interesting finds from the last year into our new book 1,342 qi facts to leave you flabbergasted. Bright side has collected 30 facts that will make you understand that there are still many things in the world that can surprise us. There is even a special storage of this blood so that people who have it can have a blood transfusion if necessary.

Latest qi facts book out in october the bookseller. Oct 11, 2018 these are just some of the weird and wonderful facts in a new book compiled by john lloyd, james harkin and anne miller the team behind the qi tv series. Now the best bits from 10 years of the show have been packed into a new book. If, like alan davies, you still think the henry viii had six wives, the earth has only one moon, that george washington was the first president of. Nov 05, 20 1,339 qi quite interesting facts to make your jaw drop is jam packed with funny, interesting and quirky facts that youll want to read aloud to anyone within listening distance.

It is based on the hit bbc2 tv show qi short for quite. Jul 05, 2018 the team have previously released 1,234 qi facts to leave you speechless, 1,423 qi facts to bowl you over, 1,227 qi facts to blow your socks off, 1,339 qi facts to make your jaw drop, 1,411 qi facts to knock you sideways and 1,342 qi facts to leave you flabbergasted as well as other spinoffs. New york times bestseller misconceptions, misunderstandings, and flawed facts finally get the heaveho in this humorous, downright humiliating book of reeducation based on the phenomenal british bestseller. It was written by xiao zixian during the succeeding liang dynasty.

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The book of general ignorance the noticeably stouter edition. The qi books have done a roaring trade, with more than 3. Challenging what most of us assume to be verifiable truths in areas like history, literature, science, nature, and more,the book of general ignorance is a witty gotcha compendium. Sep 14, 20 these, and a trove of other factoids have been compiled in 1,227 quite interesting facts to blow your socks off a book by the creators of the hit british television show qi. To that end, we recently released a us edition of our bestselling second book of general ignorance. Granted, this is never going to happen outside of a scifi movie. The second most dangerous is the flowerpot sir bruce forsyth is four months older than sliced bread iceland has 25 puffins for every.

The noticeably stouter qi book of general ignorance sets out to show you that a lot of what you think you know is wrong. Titsup is a military acronym for total inability to support. Each king in a deck of playing cards represents great king from history. May 06, 2016 faber is to publish the next qi facts book, 1,342 qi facts, in october.

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Qi means air, breath, or vapouroriginally the vapour arising from cooking cereals. Hello, and welcome to qi, where fools rush in, and angels suddenly remember they have a prior engagement. A library of literary interestingness, and accompanying twitter feed, is celebrating its oneyear anniversary this weekend. The bbcs longrunning comedy quiz show qi has released a book. Quirky if utterly useless facts in the new qi book daily. Dont get caught not knowing the true origin story for kleenex, or what a beefalo is. If you are watching a repeat on dave even more of the facts mentioned will be untrue.

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