John Mitchinson

Disfrute de un safari informativo sobre cien de los miembros más interesantes del reino animal, todo ello acompañado de la maravillosas ilustraciones y diagramas explicativos del premiado artista Ted Dewan.Conozca a los osos de agua (tardigrados para ser mas exactos), capaces de vivir flotando en el liquido elemento durante años; a los parasitos que habitan en su gato y convierten a los hombres en gruñones y a las mujeres en promiscuas. Maravillese con los elefantes que caminan de puntillas, con los cerdos que brillan en la oscuridad y con los oidos que tienen los pajaros carpinteros en la punta de lengua.Si todavia cree que un pangolin es un instrumento musical, que las hienas son canidos o que las ovejas son tontas, El pequeño gran libro de la ignorancia... animal llega justo a tiempo.

Welcome to QI: The Book of the Dead, a biographical dictionary with a twist - one where only the most interesting people made it in!QI have got together six dozen of the happiest, saddest, maddest and most successful men and women from history. Celebrate their wisdom, learn from their mistakes and marvel at their bad taste in clothes.Hans Christian Anderson was terrified of naked women, Florence Nightingale spent her last fifty years in bed, Sigmund Freud smoked twenty cigars a day, Catherine de Medici applied a daily face mask made of pigeon dung, Rembrandt van Rijn died penniless and Madame Mao banned cicadas, rustling noises and pianos. Carefully collected and ordered by the QI team into themed chapters with thought-provoking titles such as Theres Nothing Like a Bad Start in Life, Man Cannot Live by Bread Alone. Each chapter reveals hilarious insights into the true nature of the most interesting people who ever lived, including Isaac Newton, Genghis Khan, Sigmund Freud, Florence Nightingale and Karl Marx. From the bestselling authors of The Book of General Ignorance and 1,277 Facts to Knock Your Socks Off, comes a fun and inspirational biographical dictionary, with motivational stories about the famous and the obscure.

VIVE LA REVOLUTION! Dolphins shed and replace their skin every two hours Pluto was named by an eleven-year-old schoolgirl A donkeys personality is called its donkeyship Freud didnt lose his virginity until the age of 30The bastion that was QI has been stormed, elves have been put to the guillotine, the readers are in charge.After nine and a half years of cumulative reading time, readers of the QI App have selected the definitive QI collection.With a new introduction by John Lloyd and John Mitchinson, and packed full of handsome images, these ten chapters form the best-of to end all best-ofs.

QI: The Pocket Book of General Ignorance is an illuminating collection of fun facts, perfect for general knowledge, trivia and pub quiz enthusiasts. This number-one bestseller is a comprehensive catalogue of all the interesting misconceptions, mistakes and misunderstandings in common knowledge that will make you wonder why anyone bothers going to school. Now available in this handy pocket-sized edition, carry it everywhere to impress your friends, frustrate your enemies and win every argument. Henry VIII had six wives. WRONG! Everest is the highest mountain in the world. WRONG! Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone. WRONG! QI: The Pocket Book of General Ignorance is the essential set text for everyone whos proud to admit that they dont know everything, and an ideal sack of interesting facts with which to beat people who think they do.Perfect for trivia, pub quiz and general knowledge enthusiasts, this is a number-one bestseller from the authors of The Book of General Ignorance and 1,277 Facts To Blow Your Socks Off, packed with weird, wonderful and really quite interesting facts.

Join QIs expedition into the animal kingdom to encounter 100 of its most remarkable subjects. Marvel at the elephants that walk on tiptoe, pigs that shine in the dark, and the woodlouse that drinks through its bottom.Albatrosses can fly non-stop for ten years without touching the ground. Box jellyfish have twenty-four eyes. Geese mourn their dead. Koalas dont drink. Monkeys pay to look at porn. Lobsters live for a century. Mice sing while having sex. Spiders can fly.

The ultimate compendium of crisp one-liners, knockout jokes, droll asides and universal truths collected over the years by the creators of QI.You know that look women get when they want sex? Me neither. Steve Martin;You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from nesting in your hair.Chinese proverb; The Beatles are dying in the wrong order.Victor Lewis-Smith; Cauliflower is nothing but a cabbage with a college education.Mark Twain; Depend on the rabbits foot if you will, but remember: it didnt work for the rabbit.R.E. Shay; If it were not for quotations, conversation between gentlemen would be an endless series of what-hos!P. G.Wodehouse

¿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 donde procede la mayor parte del polvo de una casa? ¿De que color son las naranjas? ¿Quien en todo el mundo es mas probable que pueda asesinarte? ¿Para que se fabrico el primer lavaplatos?John Lloyd and John Mitchinson, las dos cabezas pensantes del famoso programa de la BBC QI, nos presentan la recopilacion de los hechos mas 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 erroneo. 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 si lo creen.