First published in Great Britain in 2012 by Faber and Faber under the title 1,227 QI facts to blow your socks off.

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.