A review by bibliocyclist
QI: The Third Book of General Ignorance by John Lloyd, John Mitchinson

4.0

A disabuser of commonly held notions, such as the claim that George Washington wore wooden teeth, or that ostriches bury their heads in the sand. Some of the authors' own assertions--among them that the Andaman Islanders have not yet learned to make their own fire and instead have developed "elaborate procedures for keeping and transporting clay containers of embers and smouldering logs that have been kept alight for millennia, probably having originated in lightning strikes"--are a bit hard to swallow, but overall the book still makes for excellent party fodder.