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.