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VIVE LA REVOLUTION! Dolphins shed and replace their skin every two hours Pluto was named by an eleven-year-old schoolgirl A donkey's personality is called its donkeyship Freud didn't lose his virginity until the age of 30 The bastion that was QI has been stormed, elves have been put to the guillotine, the readers are in charge. After nine and a half years of cumulative reading time, readers of the QI App have selected the definitive QI collection. With a new introduction by John Lloyd and John Mitchinson, and packed full of handsome images, these ten chapters form the best-of to end all best-ofs.

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JOHN LLOYD is a broadcaster by trade. As a radio producer he devised The News Quiz and To the Manor Born before moving to television to start Not the Nine O'Clock News, Spitting Image and Blackadder. He lives by the motto of the German mystic Henry Suso (1300-66): 'By ignorance the truth is known.' JOHN MITCHINSON is from the world of books. The original Marketing Director of Waterstone's, he became Managing Director of Cassell, where he published The Beatles, Michael Palin and Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. He's with the Chinese philosopher Lao-Tzu: 'To know that you do not know is the best. To pretend to know when you do not know is a disease.' Visit them at www.qi.com or follow them on www.twitter.com/qikipedia

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