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1001 Things You Didn't Know You Wanted to Know
1001 Things You Didn't Know You Wanted to Know Author:Anna Mantzaris From short-lived celebrity marriages to athlete nicknames, here is a trivia book that eclipses all others. It isn't useless information, nor is it the conventional trivia that you might expect to find everywhere else. In short, it is all the stuff that you didn't even know that you wanted to know. Fortunately we have ma... more »de it our business to know what you didn't know that you wanted to know in order to include it into this book.
Trivia buffs of the world, this is your book! It's crammed with 1,001 tidbits of information in such categories as Food & Drink, Television, Art, Business, Health, Religion, including Annoying Cliches, National mottos, Names that became words, Da Vinci's Inventions. and many others. For example, did you know that every strawberry contains over 200 seeds? That the first organized labor strike in the U.S. occurred in Philadelphia in 1786, when local printers demanded higher wages? Or that Jack London was the first novelist to earn one million dollars from his writing? Highlighted with maps and illustrations, this compilation contains a wealth of lists, including the least densely populated countries, the educational institutions of the Ivy League, bands that played at Woodstock, and even the most annoying clich's, as voted by people in 70 countries.
If there is anything that you feel strongly that you now know you didn't know you wanted to know that isn't here, please let us know.« less