1,227 Qi Facts To Blow Your Socks Off Av John Lloyd, John Mitchinson, James Harkin

<p><b>''I love these books ... the best books ever. Brilliant'' </b>Chris Evans<br><i><br>QI</i> 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 <i>The Zoe Ball Breakfast Showon </i>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.''<br><br><i>Did you know that: </i><br><br>Cows moo in regional accents.<br><br>The entire internet weighs less than a grain of sand.<br><br>Tintin is called Tantan in Japanese because TinTin is pronounced ''Chin chin'' and means penis.<br><br>The water in the mouth of a blue whale weighs more than its body.<br><br>Under the Wildlife and Countryside Act of 1981, it is explicitly illegal in Britain to use a machinegun to kill a hedgehog.<br><br><i>1,227 QI Facts To Blow Your Socks Off</i> will make you look at the universe (and your socks) in an alarming new way.</p>