By John Lloyd; John Mitchinson;
Who made the 1st aeroplane flight? what number legs does an octopus have? How a lot water in the event you drink each day? what's the likelihood of tossing a coin and it touchdown on heads? What occurs should you go away a enamel in a tumbler of coke in a single day? what's apartment dirt usually made up of? What color are oranges? Who on the planet is probably to kill you? What used to be the 1st dishwasher outfitted to do?
John Lloyd and John Mitchinson, the brains at the back of QI, right here current an excellent selection of the main outrageous, attention-grabbing and mind-bending evidence, taking over the preferred normal lack of knowledge around from BBC1's most sensible rated quiz and the 1st booklet within the bestselling sequence.
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These went on to transform the development of the bicycle and the car and are still widely used today. And that wasn’t all. Cayley was a remarkably prolific inventor, developing self-righting lifeboats, caterpillar tracks for bulldozers, automatic signals for railway crossings and seat belts. Even more remarkably, he offered all these inventions for the public good, without expecting any financial reward. The Wright Brothers made their famous flights half a century later, in 1903. They were inspired by Cayley and by another unsung hero of aviation, Otto Lilienthal (1848–96), a Prussian known as the ‘Glider King’.
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Don’t even try: there’s no such thing. After a lifetime’s study of the creatures formerly known as ‘fish’, the great palaeontologist Stephen Jay Gould (1941–2002) concluded they didn’t exist. The point he was making is that the word ‘fish’ is applied indiscriminately to entirely separate classes of animal – cartilaginous ones (like sharks and rays); bony ones (including most ‘fish’, from piranhas and eels to seahorses and cod); and ones with skulls but no backbones or jaws (such as hagfish and lampreys).