{"product_id":"the-most-interesting-book-in-the-world-2","title":"The Most Interesting Book in the World","description":"'Charming, hilarious, and guaranteed to make you the most interesting person at any party. Or the most annoying' - Adam Rutherford\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Weird and wonderful facts you didn’t know you needed. Full of quirky nuggets of information and trivia’ - Sun\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Joyously bizarre facts in a new book from a QI brainbox’ - Daily Mail\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawn from a former BBC QI Elf's lifetime’s search for the weird and the wonderful, The Most Interesting Book in The World is a miscellany of things too strange to be true, yet somehow are. \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e This remarkable treasury of tales and trivia will whisk you on a jaw-dropping journey through time and space, stopping off to marvel at only the obscure, the startling and the straight-up weird.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e In it, Edward Brooke-Hitching considers questions such as:\u003cbr\u003e   - Why is a cat technically a liquid and a solid  - How did nineteenth-century scientists attempt to signal aliens  - Why did the Dutch once eat their prime minister     \u003cbr\u003e Nowhere else will you find woven together the stories of the religious leader who attempted to build a robot messiah from a dining table, the anti-gravity ‘air-walkers’ of Victorian London, and the pirates who rode sheep; or practical advice for correctly exorcising a house and casting ancient love spells, along with recent scientific discoveries like the mould that can navigate a maze and that humans can glow in the dark.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e A unique hybrid of encyclopaedia, trivia and drunken-bar raconteur, all stitched together in one colossal Frankenstein volume packed full of images and photographs - this is the ultimate must-read for anyone looking to tickle the cortex of their curiosity.","brand":"Buchserien.de","offers":[{"title":"Neuware","offer_id":54029314163026,"sku":"9781398532397","price":16.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0615\/7002\/3593\/files\/unnamed_71b67774-dab5-4f9e-b897-a088c78412c5.jpg?v=1784319406","url":"https:\/\/www.buchserien.de\/products\/the-most-interesting-book-in-the-world-2","provider":"Buchserien.de","version":"1.0","type":"link"}