1,411 QI Facts To Knock You Sideways

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1,411 QI Facts to Knock You Sideways, by John Lloyd, John Mitchinson and James Harkin, contains all-new facts from the QI team to astonish, delight and enlighten.

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...

Did you know that:





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.



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. James Harkin is QI's Senior Researcher and Script Editor and is one of the presenters of the number one podcast No Such Thing As A Fish.