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1,227 Quite Interesting Facts to Blow Your Socks Off

by John Lloyd
& Others. Norton. Sept. 2013. 304p. ISBN 9780393241037. $15.95. REF
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The authors of this fun-facts roundup are affiliated with the BBC quiz panel show QI (Quite Interesting), which has inspired several tie-ins already, including The Book of General Ignorance (LJ 8/07) and The Second Book of General Ignorance, (LJ 9/15/11), the latter employing a question-and-answer format to address such burning topics as how to milk a yak. As its title suggests, this new work is less structured in approach, although an index helps to discover such nuggets as "Mushrooms are more closely related to humans than [to] plants." No source material is cited for these quite interesting facts, but perhaps that's not quite the point.
VERDICT Amusing fodder for trivia nuts.
Reviewed by Judy Quinn , Jul 01, 2013
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