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CONTENTS INTRODUCTION A GUTENBERG BIBLE ON VELLUM HARRISON SCHMITT’S SPACE SUIT THREE PIECES OF MARS A PIECE OF NEWTON’S APPLE TREE THE FIRST CULTIVATED PEARLS LAMOUROUXIA VISCOSA SEED FROM MEXICO THINGS BENEATH THE FLOORBOARDS A BEJEWELLED CROSS A HAIDA SHAMAN’S RATTLE FRANCIS CRICK’S SKETCH OF DNA TABLET K.143, SCHOOL EXERCISE BOOK OF ASHURBANIPAL, KING OF ASSYRIA VLADIMIR NABOKOV’S BUTTERFLY GENITALIA CABINET CHARLES DICKENS’S FELINE LETTER OPENER THE HEART TOKEN ITEM RDMSC RD 1/1/1 AUGUSTE PICCARD’S BALLOON GONDOLA JASON JUNIOR UNDERWATER PAINTING BY ZARH PRITCHARD ANGLERFISH COUPLE THE FIRST GIRAFFE IN FRANCE A GREAT AUK EGG A GLASS JELLYFISH THE INTERIOR OF VASA FLAG FROM THE BATTLE OF TRAFALGAR A BLUE WHALE LOGBOOK OF THE KON-TIKI EXPEDITION WALLY HERBERT’S SLEDGE SONG 21 EXU BOCA DE FOGO LIVINGSTONE AND STANLEY’S HATS HAWAI’IAN FEATHER HELMET THE LIENZO OF TLAPILTEPEC MIXTEC TURQUOISE MOSAIC SHIELD ALICIA (1965–67) MURAL BY JOAN MIRÓ AND JOSEP LLORÉNS ARTIGAS AN UNOPENED BOOK THE DIAMOND SUTRA TIBETAN ABBOT’S COSTUME TWO GOLDEN BEES, FROM THE GLASS PALACE IN BURMA SLAP-SOLED SHOES BLOOD’S DAGGER TELL HALAF SCULPTURES ALFRED NOBEL’S WILL SKETCHES OF CHURCHILL FRIENDSHIP BOOK TORAH ARK CURTAIN THE TOWER OF THE BLUE HORSES BY FRANZ MARC CHRISTMAS TELEGRAM FROM AGENT ZIGZAG A CHANNEL ISLANDS PILLAR BOX BUCKINGHAM PALACE SWITCHBOARD A LEAF OF GOAT EYE STAMPS THE TOOLS THAT BELONGED TO QUEEN VICTORIA’S DENTIST SKULL OF A TAPUIASAURUS MACEDOI HANDAXE FROM HOXEN A SERIES OF PAINTINGS BY OZIAS THE SPAULDING COLLECTION OF JAPANESE PRINTS VAN GOGH’S SKETCHBOOKS BOX IN A VALISE BY MARCEL DUCHAMP MARGARET FONTEYN’S TUTU STANLEY PEACH’S CENTRE COURT DESIGNS ORIGINAL DRAFT OF ‘AULD LANG SYNE’, ROBERT BURNS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS PICTURE CREDITS COPYRIGHT ABOUT THE PUBLISHER SINCE 2002 I HAVE BEEN a writer and researcher for the television show QI. I also co-write a weekly QI column in the Saturday Telegraph and research a Radio 4 programme called The Museum of Curiosity. One of the things I’m often asked
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