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ALL NEW FACTS FROM THE QI TEAM! Orchids can get jetlag. Lizards can't walk and breathe at the same time. There are 177,147 ways to tie a tie. 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 . 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... 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 .
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John Lloyd CBE is the creator of BBC Two's QI. He has been behind some of the most successful and best-loved TV programmes of the last three decades including The News Quiz, To the Manor Born, Not the Nine O'Clock News, Blackadder and Spitting Image. He's also written or co-authored many books including The Meaning of Liff with Douglas Adams and The Book of General Ignorance, which has been translated into 30 languages. He is married to Sarah and they have three children.John Mitchinson is from the world of books. The original Marketing Director of Waterstone's, he became Managing Director of Cassell, where he published The Beatles, Michael Palin and Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, and now runs Unbound. He's with Einstein: 'There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.'James Harkin is a senior researcher, writer and script-editor for the BBC's QI, and one-fourth of the award-winning podcast No Such Thing As A Fish. He has authored 13 books with the QI Elves and toured sell-out shows across the world, from the London Palladium to the Sydney Opera House. He is a long-suffering fan of the Jacksonville Jaguars.
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Brilliant' Chris Evans1,411 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.
