1,227 QI FACTS TO BLOW YOUR SOCKS OFF
Book ID/图书代码： 04560012B58438
English Summary/英文概要： 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 a thriving website, a Facebook page, a Twitter feed; and produce an iPhone App and a sister Radio 4 programme. 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; the dialling code from Britain to Russia is 007; potatoes have more chromosomes than human beings; the London Underground has made more money from its famous map than it has from running trains; Tintin is called Tantan in Japanese because TinTin is pronounced ’Chin chin’ and means penis; the water in the mouth of a blue whale weighs more than its body; Scotland has twice as many pandas as Conservative MPs; Saddam’s bunker was designed by the grandson of the woman who built Hitler’s bunker; Under the Wildlife and Countryside Act of 1981, it is explicitly illegal in Britain to use a machinegun to kill a hedgehog.
1,227 QI Facts To Blow Your Socks Off will make you look at the universe (and your socks) in an alarming new way.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： QI是英国益智类电视喜剧节目，但很少有人知道，他在澳大利亚、新西兰、以色列和非洲，以及BitTorrent/比特流网站上也刮起了不小的旋风。我们还写书和报纸专栏上发表科普幽默知识点;同时还掌管着一个点击量攀升的网站，一个脸书页面，在推特上和网友互动;在iPhone 和姊妹电台④频道上播放QI团队的惊人发现。用爱因斯坦的话说: ’一切都应该看似简单，但其实并不简单’。
你知道吗︰母牛发出哞声中有着地方口音;整个互联网的重量不到一粒沙子;从英国到俄罗斯拨号代码是007;土豆比人类有更多的染色体;伦敦地下铁过去很赚钱，其著名的地图运行的列车更能盈利;丁丁在日语中被叫做‘坦坦’，是因为丁丁的发音 ’钦钦’，在日文中意味着男性生殖器。蓝鲸嘴里水的重量比它自身的身体重量更重;苏格兰有的两次独立公投，正如英国保守党国会议员一样难能可贵; 萨达姆的地堡是由她妻妾的孙子们设计的; 1981年制定了野生动植物保护法，在英国使用机枪杀死一只刺猬是违法的。
1227个让你出乎意料之外的事实，让你以全新的方式来看待世界。(Sandy)
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About the Author/作者介绍： John Lloyd has a broadcasting background. As a radio producer he devised The News Quiz and To the Manor Born before moving to television to start Not the Nine O’Clock News, Spitting Image, and Blackadder.
John Mitchinson is from the world of books. The original Marketing Director of Waterstone’s, he became Managing Director of Cassell, and now runs Unbound.
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