{"product_id":"the-most-interesting-book-in-the-world","title":"The Most Interesting Book in the World","description":"\u003cp\u003eCharming, hilarious, and guaranteed to make you the most interesting person at any party. Or the most annoying' - Adam Rutherford\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Weird and wonderful facts you didn’t know you needed. Full of quirky nuggets of information and trivia’ - Sun\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Joyously bizarre facts in a new book from a QI brainbox’ - Daily Mail\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn it, Edward Brooke-Hitching considers questions such as:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhy is a cat technically a liquid and a solid?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow did nineteenth-century scientists attempt to signal aliens?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhy did the Dutch once eat their prime minister?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNowhere 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublication year:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2026\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"EDWARD BROOKE-HITCHING","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46959799533622,"sku":"1080","price":1270.0,"currency_code":"EGP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/diamond-pub.com\/ar\/products\/the-most-interesting-book-in-the-world","provider":"Diamond Pub","version":"1.0","type":"link"}