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''I love these books ... the best books ever. Brilliant'' Chris Evans

QI
is the smartest comedy show on British television, but few people know that we''re also a major legal hit in Australia, New Zealand, Israel and Africa and an illegal one on BitTorrent. We also write books and newspaper columns; run some (frankly thriving, if we do say so ourselves) social media pages; and some of us appear on The Zoe Ball Breakfast Showon BBC Radio 2 every week to answer your questions. At the core of what we do is the astonishing fact - painstakingly researched and distilled to a brilliant and shocking clarity. In Einstein''s words: ''Everything should be as simple as possible, but not simpler.''

Did you know that:

Cows moo in regional accents.

The entire internet weighs less than a grain of sand.

Tintin is called Tantan in Japanese because TinTin is pronounced ''Chin chin'' and means penis.

The water in the mouth of a blu

1227 QI Facts To Blow Your Socks Off

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    Publisher: Faber & Faber
    Publication Date: 01/11/2012
    ISBN13: 9780571297917, 978-0571297917
    ISBN10: 0571297919

    Description

    Book Synopsis

    ''I love these books ... the best books ever. Brilliant'' Chris Evans

    QI
    is the smartest comedy show on British television, but few people know that we''re also a major legal hit in Australia, New Zealand, Israel and Africa and an illegal one on BitTorrent. We also write books and newspaper columns; run some (frankly thriving, if we do say so ourselves) social media pages; and some of us appear on The Zoe Ball Breakfast Showon BBC Radio 2 every week to answer your questions. At the core of what we do is the astonishing fact - painstakingly researched and distilled to a brilliant and shocking clarity. In Einstein''s words: ''Everything should be as simple as possible, but not simpler.''

    Did you know that:

    Cows moo in regional accents.

    The entire internet weighs less than a grain of sand.

    Tintin is called Tantan in Japanese because TinTin is pronounced ''Chin chin'' and means penis.

    The water in the mouth of a blu

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