{"product_id":"9780571297917","title":"1,227 QI Facts To Blow Your Socks Off","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Lloyd, John \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Hardback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 01\/11\/2012,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 336 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9780571297917,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'I love these books ...  the best books ever. Brilliant' Chris EvansQI 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe entire internet weighs less than a grain of sand.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTintin is called Tantan in Japanese because TinTin is pronounced 'Chin chin' and means penis.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe water in the mouth of a blue whale weighs more than its body.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnder the Wildlife and Countryside Act of 1981, it is explicitly illegal in Britain to use a machinegun to kill a hedgehog.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1,227 QI Facts To Blow Your Socks Off will make you look at the universe (and your socks) in an alarming new way.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54889363997045,"sku":"9780571297917","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9780571297917_2dbe55ee-a987-4b3f-b92a-54a9ea996363.jpg?v=1759657031","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.live\/products\/9780571297917","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}