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Loe raamatut: «Steve Wright’s Book of Factoids»

Steve Wright
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Contents

Cover

Title page

Celebrity section 1

Chav Section

Elvis Section

Food Section

Gratuitous Sex Section

Celebrity section 2

Live Aid/Live 8 Section

Reality TV section

Celebrity section 3

Celebrity section 4

World Cup section

Acknowledgements

Copyright

About the Publisher

Just when you thought it was Newport, the most common place name in Britain is Newtown, which occurs 150 times. And the most common name for a shopping centre is Arndale – which is also my Uncle Len’s middle name.

The herring is the most widely eaten fish in the world. Although not in itself very wide – in fact it’s very flat and no fun whatsoever.


Did you know that most cows produce more milk when they listen to music? Favourite with our bovine buddies are the Scissor Sisters and any oldie by Paul Young.

Were you aware that Queen bees lay nearly 1,500 eggs a day and live for up to two years?

According to top space scientists, about 1,000 tons of space material enters the atmosphere every year and makes its way to the Earth’s surface.

The world’s deadliest recorded earthquake hit in central China in 1557, killing 830,000 people. In 1976, another tremor killed more than 250,000 people in Tangshan, China.

Apart from Croydon, the wettest place on Earth is Lloro, Colombia, which averages 523.6in of rainfall a year, or more than 40ft (13 metres). That’s about 10 times more than the big cities in Europe.

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28 detsember 2018
Objętość:
187 lk 179 illustratsiooni
ISBN:
9780007364381
Õiguste omanik:
HarperCollins
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