1,227 Qi Facts To Blow Your Socks Off

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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 dialing 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 mp’s; 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.