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Cargando... 1,342 QI Facts To Leave You Flabbergastedpor John Lloyd
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Read nightly for a year. Some were interesting, others, not as much, and some send you to the net to learn more. ( ) All 1,342 facts in this book come from the BBC show QI and it was a very enlightening, informative and entertaining read. I read their earlier book 1,339 QI Facts To Make Your Jaw Drop in 2015 and it was just as engaging. I loved being able to check the references for the facts online by visiting the QI website and entering the relevant page number. Despite sometimes slowing down my reading progress, I just had to know more about some of the facts listed in the book. Here are some of my favourites: Making all the chain mail for The Lord of the Rings wore the costume designers' fingerprints away. Page 18 Each archer at the Battle of Agincourt had three arrows in the air at any given moment. Page 48 From 1850 to 1880, over 3,000 English women died after their skirts caught fire. Page 54 Tartle is an old Scottish word for the moment of panic when you're about to introduce someone and realise you've forgotten their name. Page 126 Roald Dahl, Noel Coward, Greta Garbo, Cary Grant, Frank Sinatra, Harry Houdini and Christopher Lee all worked as spies. Page 163 121 bell-ringers were killed by lightning in Germany between 1750 and 1783, due to a belief that church bells drove away storms. Page 250 1,342 QI Facts To Leave You Flabbergasted is the perfect book to take with you in your handbag/manbag/backpack or briefcase and is super easy to read when you want something engaging to occupy a few minutes. Highly recommended for trivia buffs, know-it-alls and curious readers of all ages. * Copy courtesy of Allen & Unwin * Another annual collection of facts from the QI team. The books are still enjoyable, but once you have seen the editorial hands massaging the facts it becomes less rewarding. The push for brevity has had the unintended consequence of removing some much-needed context: sometimes, when you read one of the facts, you need to know more. I should stress, it's not that you necessarily want to know more, only that you need a little bit more qualification in order to appreciate the information given. Entries like "Bacteria invented the wheel" (pg. 333) require more context; on its own, it means nothing, but 'some bacteria use wheel-shaped motors in their tails' (which is accurate, according to the cited source) is almost as concise and much more informative. It also, when you think about it, makes the fact much more mundane than the editorial phrasing they chose. This massaging of facts is sometimes just innocently clumsy ("No one knows why scientists don't have tails" (pg. 3)) but sometimes it is deliberately misleading. A fact on page 5 that "Sabre-toothed tigers never existed" is not, despite what you might conclude solely from that line, suggesting these cats never roamed the Earth. Rather, the cited source reveals it is just splitting hairs about the word 'tiger' as they were not closely related to modern tigers. The QI team manufactured a misleading 'fact' using semantics, and it is this sort of editorial intervention that means the cited sources – and consequently, an internet connection – are required at hand in order for the book to remain a rewarding read. The book cannot stand on its own. With that particular bee out of my bonnet, these QI fact books do remain a quick and easy pleasure. Some of the facts are cleverly written (like the 'Bouth' fact on page 84), some are cheeky (the ship-salvage industry tried to get weather forecasting banned (pg. 61)), some make you laugh (the man who swam the Panama Canal who was declared an honorary ship (pg. 314)) and some are, yes, quite interesting (the first passports had written descriptions instead of photos (pg. 68)). An entertaining read, with some caveats. I would like to thank Faber and Faber for providing me with an advanced reading copy of this book. There's not a lot I can say about this one. It is what it says it is; a book full of weird, funny and interesting facts that will have you either chuckling, WTF'ing, or scratching your head. Here are few examples: The Very Hungry Caterpillar was originally called A Week with Willie Worm. In China, it's illegal to reincarnate without filling in a government Reincarnation Application form. Men who watch a lot of porn have smaller than average brains. In the 18th century, chickens were known as "cacklers" and eggs were "cackling farts". "The Copper-Penis Owl" is the monster used in Hungary to scare children into behaving. I now find myself throwing out random useless facts during conversations, lol. As an added bonus, my point score has gone up when watching QI on TV! sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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