New Releases by John Mitchinson

Verras je vrienden met onnodige maar fascinerende kennis Na het succes van Loeien koeien in het Nederlands?, Het grote boek van nutteloze kennis en onze andere feitenboekjes keert het QI-team weer terug met een nieuwe voorraad feiten die verbazen en die je wijzer maken. Dezelfde succesformule met nieuwe inhoud! We kunnen er geen genoeg van krijgen, van grappige feiten die niet alleen leuk zijn maar die ons ook versteld doen staan en stof tot praten geven: wist je dat er Netflix-sokken bestaan? Als je met die sokken aan naar Netflix kijkt en in slaap valt, zetten je sokken het programma op pauze. En wist je dat er meer mensen overlijden door het maken van selfies dan door haaien? En dat water drinken echt niet helpt tegen een kater? En dat sommige mensen allergisch zijn voor hun eigen zweet? En dat Shakespeares schedel ontbreekt in zijn graf? En dat... Geloof je niet wat je leest? Achter in het boek staat waar de feiten vandaan komen. De pers over de boeken van John Lloyd en John Mitchinson ‘Als je er eenmaal in zit is het moeilijk om je eruit los te maken. Waarom is dit zo verslavend?’ NRC Handelsblad ‘In het nieuwe boek van het QI-team krijg je antwoorden op vragen die je zelf nooit zou stellen.’ Daily Mail ‘Intrigerende, hilarische en totaal verrassende kleine brokjes informatie.’ Daily Mirror

''I love these books ... the best books ever. Brilliant'' Chris Evans The sixth book in the bestselling series brings bizarre, astonishing, conversation-starting facts from the clever clogs at the hugely popular BBC quiz show QI. Did you know that: Iceland imports ice cubes. A group of ladybirds is called a loveliness. It is illegal in Saudi Arabia to name a child Sandi. Eight billion particles of fog can fit into a teaspoon. People who read books live longer than people who don''t. Prince Philip was born on a kitchen table in Corfu. No human beings have ever had sex in space. Netfiix''s biggest competitor is sleep. Mice sigh up to 40 times an hour.

''This may look like a free ebook sampler, but it''s actually a portal. While you may read this in just twenty minutes, each little nugget is only the visible tip of an information iceberg.'' In this free ebook sampler to accompany the new book 1,342 QI Facts To Leave You Flabbergasted, come face-to-face with some of the most mind-blowing facts in the QI universe, such as: The sun gets 4 million tons lighter every second; The first scientifically named dinosaur bone was called Scrotum humanum because it looked like a giant pair of human testicles; A ''batman'' was a unit of weight in the Ottoman Empire. Ben Affleck weighs about nine batmans; Making all the chain mail for The Lord of the Rings wore the costume designers'' fingerprints away. Enjoy the incredible world of QI facts.

''I love these books ... the best books ever. Brilliant'' Chris Evans This is an astonishing trove of the strangest, funniest, and most improbable tidbits of knowledge from the clever lot at the hugely popular BBC quiz show QI. The sock-blasting, jaw-dropping, side-swiping phenomenon that is QI serves up a sparkling new selection of 1,342 facts to leave you flabbergasted. Did you know that: Trees sleep at night. Google searches for ''How to put on a condom'' peak at 10.28pm. There is no word for time in any Aboriginal language. Scotland has 421 words for snow. Emoji is the fastest growing language in history. Astronauts wear belts to stop their trousers falling up. The name Donald means ''ruler of the world''. Tanks are exempt from London''s Congestion charge. The world''s only Cornish pasty museum is in Mexico. When you blush so does the lining of your stomach. A group of unicorns is called a blessing. 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 www.qi.com

The New York Times best-selling authors of the QI series return with a fourth collection of mind-bending trivia. The New York Times best-selling authors of the Quite Interesting series have made you see sideways, knocked your socks off, and left your jaw on the floor. Now John Lloyd, John Mitchinson, and James Harkin are back to offer even more—1,234, to be exact—shocking, enlightening, downright-fun facts that will leave you speechless…and pantomiming for more. Did you know? The Big Bang was not as loud as a Motörhead concert. Abraham Lincoln was a licensed bartender. According to the company that created her, Hello Kitty isn’t a cat. Albert Einstein’s eyeballs are in a safety deposit box in New York. McDonald’s once created bubble-gum-flavored broccoli. It is impossible to hum and whisper at the same time. Convinced it’s all hogwash? Visit QI.com/US1234 for proof of the veracity of every fact. Want more? Check out 1,411 Quite Interesting Facts to Knock You Sideways, 1,339 Quite Interesting Facts to Make Your Jaw Drop, and 1,227 Quite Interesting Facts to Blow Your Socks Off.

Een opsomming van grappige en nutteloze feiten, die je versteld doen staan en stof tot praten geven Wist je dat Elvis helemaal niet donker, maar eigenlijk blond was? Net zomin zijn zwarte gaten zwart. En roodborstjes hebben eigenlijk een oranje borst. Dolly Parton verloor trouwens een Dolly Parton-lookalike-wedstrijd van een travestiet. En het eerste T-shirt was bedoeld voor vrijgezellen die geen knopen konden aannaaien. De BBC zendt al jaren de hilarische en populaire quiz QI uit, gepresenteerd door Stephen Fry. Maar we kunnen nu thuis en op borrels ook weer leuke wetenswaardigheden oplepelen, want na het succes van de vorige boeken keert het QI-team terug met een nieuwe voorraad feiten die verbazen en die je wijzer maken. Je raakt er verslaafd aan – als je eenmaal aan het lezen slaat, hou je niet meer op. Een must voor spelletjesfanaten en liefhebbers van quizzen en lijstjes. De pers over Het grote boek van nutteloze kennis ‘Als je er eenmaal in zit is het moeilijk om je eruit los te maken. Waarom is dit boek zo verslavend?’ NRC Handelsblad ‘Nutteloze kennis waar je misschien toch wat aan hebt.’ **** Het Parool ‘In het fascinerende nieuwe boek van het QI-team krijg je antwoorden op vragen die je zelf nooit zou stellen.’ Daily Mail

The Third Book of General Ignorance gathers together 180 questions, both new and previously featured on the BBC TV programme''s popular ''General Ignorance'' round, and show why, when it comes to general knowledge, none of us knows anything at all. Who invented the sandwich? What was the best thing before sliced bread? Who first ate frogs'' legs? Which cat never changes its spots? What did Lady Godiva do? What can you legally do if you come across a Welshman in Chester after sunset?

'I love these books ... the best books ever. Brilliant' Chris Evans The fourth in QI's bestselling facts series - 1,234 QI Facts to Leave You Speechless is filled to the brim with astonishing facts that will leave you befuddled, bemused and bewildered. The QI team have blown your socks off, made your jaw drop and knocked you sideways. Now they return with 1,234 brand-new mind-blowing facts that will leave you utterly speechless. Did you know: Flowers get suntans. Denmark imports prisoners. Bees can fly higher than Mount Everest. The Republic of Ireland first got postcodes in 2015. Martin Luther King Jr got a C+ in Public Speaking. No one in the UK dies of 'natural causes'. Penguins can't taste fish.

A dazzling third installment of astounding new facts from the New York Times best-selling authors of 1,227 Quite Interesting Facts to Blow Your Socks Off and 1,339 Quite Interesting Facts to Make Your Jaw Drop. 1,411 Quite Interesting Facts to Knock You Sideways is a gold mine of wide-ranging, eye-opening, brain-bursting nuggets of trivia that''s impossible to put down, another "treasure trove of factoids" (National Public Radio, Weekend Edition). Did you know? Orchids can get jet lag Lizards can''t walk and breathe at the same time Frank Sinatra took a shower 12 times a day Ladybug orgasms last for 30 minutes There are 177,147 ways to tie a tie Traffic lights existed before cars The soil in your garden is 2 million years old

The Third Book of General Ignorance gathers together 180 questions, both new and previously featured on the BBC TV programme''s popular ''General Ignorance'' round, and show why, when it comes to general knowledge, none of us knows anything at all. Who invented the sandwich? What was the best thing before sliced bread? Who first ate frogs'' legs? Which cat never changes its spots? What did Lady Godiva do? What can you legally do if you come across a Welshman in Chester after sunset?

The international bestseller, this comprehensive catalogue of all the misconceptions, mistakes and misunderstandings in ''common knowledge'' will make you wonder why anyone bothers going to school. Carry it everywhere to impress your friends, frustrate your enemies and win every argument. You have no muscles in your fingers. Coffee isn''t made from beans. No one has ever slid down a bannister. There are 613 commandments in the Bible. Vipers, cobras and rattlesnakes are not poisonous. Newborn babies are indifferent to their mothers. The Swiss Family weren''t called Robinson. The unluckiest date is Monday the 27th.

Amazing facts from the animal kingdom from QI.

Now in paperback. The QI team returns with a fresh stack of facts to astonish and enlighten. Pigs suffer from anorexia. Wagner always wore pink silk underwear. Lord Kitchener had four spaniels called Shot, Bang, Miss and Damn. The first computer mouse was made of wood. 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's website.

''I love these books ... the best books ever. Brilliant'' Chris Evans 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.

Det finnes knapt noe viktigere enn svært unyttig kunnskap, og ingen er flinkere til å samle og formidle slike kuriositeter enn Stephen Fry og teamet bak det populære britiske TV-programmet Quite Interesting. QI-bøkene har tatt en hel verden med storm ved å redefinere begrepet allmennkunnskap, og kaste nytt lys over spørsmål som har plaget filosofer, forskere og fulle menn på pub gjennom lange kvelder.

From the creators of the hugely popular BBC quiz show QI, a brilliant sequel to their New York Times–best-selling 1,227 Quite Interesting Facts to Blow Your Socks Off. 1,339 Quite Interesting Facts to Make Your Jaw Drop is bursting with mindboggling morsels of trivia—informative, hilarious, sometimes arcane or utterly useless, but always entertaining. Did you know? • Wagner only ever wore pink silk underwear. • There are 34,000 statues of Kim Il Sung in North Korea. • There is a cult in Malaysia that worships a giant teapot. • Earthworms have five hearts. • Your eyebrows renew themselves every 64 days. • Charles Darwin''s tortoise Harriet died in 2006 at the age of 176. Every fact in this magnificent little volume has been researched with punctilious care in order to bring you the truth in its purest form.

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EVERYTHING TO PLAY FOR - A NEW BOOK BY QI ELVES JAMES HARKIN AND ANNA PTASZYNSKI - IS AVAILABLE FOR PREORDER NOW ''I love these books ... the best books ever. Brilliant'' Chris Evans 1,399 QI Facts To Make Your Jaw Drop by John Lloyd, John Mitchinson and James Harkin is packed with even more fascinating facts. Whilst you''re bending over to grab your socks following the succes of 1,227 QI Facts to Blow Your Socks Off, don''t forget pick up your jaw as the QI team returns with a fresh stack of facts to astonish and enlighten. Did you know that: Pigs suffer from anorexia. It is impossible to whistle in a spacesuit. The first computer mouse was made of wood. Rugby School''s first official rugby kit in 1871 included a bow tie. Lord Kitchener had four spaniels called Shot, Bang, Miss and Damn. J. K Rowling has no middle name. 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''s website.

De BBC zendt al jaren de hilarische en populaire quiz QI uit, gepresenteerd door aartskomiek en rasintellectueel Stephen Fry. De grappigste trivia, wetenswaardigheden en nutteloze kennis van tien jaar QI zijn nu gebundeld in Loeien koeien in het Nederlands? Wist je bijvoorbeeld dat het landennummer van Rusland 007 is? En dat je in Ghana geen tweedehands ondergoed mag verkopen? Of dat een kannibaal in Turkije een `jamjam heet? Na het lezen van dit vermakelijke en informatieve boek kun je op feestjes alle vervelende, frustrerende betweters van deze wereld weer eens lekker op hun nummer zetten, of je kunt natuurlijk zelf een partijtje bluffen!

A New York Times Bestseller From the creators of the hugely popular BBC quiz show QI and the best-selling Book of General Ignorance: 1,227 mind-bending facts. Did you know? • Cows moo in regional accents. • The international dialing code for Russia is 007. • The water in the mouth of a blue whale weighs more than its body. • Pants are responsible for twice as many accidents as chain saws. • Saddam Hussein''s bunker was designed by the grandson of the woman who built Hitler''s bunker. • Heroin was originally sold as cough medicine. 1,227 Quite Interesting Facts to Blow Your Socks Off is a trove of the strangest, funniest, and most improbable tidbits of knowledge—all painstakingly researched and distilled to a brilliant and shocking clarity.

''I love these books ... the best books ever. Brilliant'' Chris Evans 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 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. The entire internet weighs less than a grain of sand. 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. 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.

He aquí un catálogo exhaustivo y humillante de imprecisiones, errores y equivocaciones de «cultura general». Si todavía cree que Enrique VIII tuvo seis esposas, que la Tierra tiene una sola luna o que el Everest es la montaña más alta del mundo, necesita este libro. Urgentemente. El pequeño gran libro de la ignorancia arroja nueva luz sobre una cuestión que ha obsesionado a filósofos, científicos y clientes de bares de todos los tiempos: ¿qué es cierto y qué es pura tontería? Thomas Edison afirmó que no sabemos ni una cienmillonésima parte de nada. Mark Twain creía que se necesitarían ocho millones de años sólo para dominar las matemáticas. Woody Allen apunta que algunos beben de las aguas profundas del río del conocimiento mientras que otros sólo hacen gárgaras. Es muy posible que este libro le haga sentir insignificante e ignorante. Pero también se reirá a carcajada limpia durante un buen rato. Y de paso, aprenderá un montón de cosas nuevas. ¿Se anima?

¿Quién realizó el primer vuelo en avión? ¿Cuántas piernas tiene un pulpo? ¿Qué cantidad de agua se recomienda beber al día? ¿Qué ocurre si dejas una dentadura dentro de un vaso de Coca-Cola durante toda la noche? ¿De dónde procede la mayor parte del polvo de una casa? ¿De qué color son las naranjas? ¿Quién en todo el mundo es más probable que pueda asesinarte? ¿Para qué se fabricó el primer lavaplatos? John Lloyd and John Mitchinson, las dos cabezas pensantes del famoso programa de la BBC ”QI”, nos presentan la recopilación de los hechos más fascinantes, asombrosos y disparatados aparecidos en el programa. Sean cuales sean las respuestas que hayas dado a las anteriores preguntas, puedes estar seguro de que todo lo que crees saber es erróneo. El nuevo pequeño libro de la ignorancia es un texto esencial para todo aquel que sabe que no lo sabe todo y un instrumento ideal para derrotar a los que sí lo creen.

«Quando abbiamo realizzato il primo Libro dell'ignoranza nel 2006 - aiutati dai valorosi e infaticabili Elfi di QI - eravamo convinti di aver scavato la Montagna dell'ignoranza fino ad esaurirla, consumandone le risorse per sempre. Nulla poteva essere piú lontano dalla verità». John Lloyd, John Mitchinson, Il secondo libro dell'ignoranza *** Siete convinti che il primo volo in aeroplano l'abbiano fatto i fratelli Wright? Che Napoleone fosse un tappo? E che le arance - basta il nome - siano arancioni? O che i pipistrelli siano ciechi? Bè, vi sbagliate di grosso.