{"product_id":"most-interesting-book-in-the-world","title":"Most Interesting Book in the World","description":"\u003cb\u003e'Charming, hilarious, and guaranteed to make you the most interesting person at any party. Or the most annoying' - Adam Rutherford\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e'Weird and wonderful facts you didn't know you needed. Full of quirky nuggets of information and trivia' - \u003ci\u003eSun\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e'Joyously bizarre facts in a new book from a \u003ci\u003eQI\u003c\/i\u003e brainbox' - \u003ci\u003eDaily Mail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eDrawn from a former BBC \u003ci\u003eQI\u003c\/i\u003e Elf's \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003elifetime's search for the weird and the wonderful, \u003ci\u003eThe Most Interesting Book in The World\u003c\/i\u003e is a miscellany of things too strange to be true, yet somehow are.\u003c\/b\u003e\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   \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eWhy is a cat technically a liquid and a solid?\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eHow did nineteenth-century scientists attempt to signal aliens?\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eWhy did the Dutch once eat their prime minister?  \u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e  \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":"Unity Books","offers":[{"title":"Most Interesting Book in the World","offer_id":45614646296773,"sku":null,"price":45.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0625\/6679\/3413\/files\/978-1-3985-3237-3.jpg?v=1768094393","url":"https:\/\/unitybooks.myshopify.com\/products\/most-interesting-book-in-the-world","provider":"Unity Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}