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You Learn Something New Every Day
Kee Malesky
365 Facts to Fulfill Your Life
John Wiley & Sons
October 2012
On Sale: October 9, 2012
288 pages
ISBN: 111811275X
EAN: 9781118112755
Kindle: B007ZDNA5W
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A full year's worth of fascinating facts Plus a
bonus fact for leap year! "A bon-bon of a book crammed
with delicious nuggets of information and morsels of
amusement. Best of all, the only weight you'll gain is in
your brain."
—Susan Stamberg, Special
Correspondent, NPR "Kee Malesky has done it again. Day
by day in any year, the reader will find interesting and
absorbing facts and stories."
—Carl Kasell,
Official Judge and Scorekeeper, NPR's Wait Wait . . .
Don't Tell Me! - What was the greatest thing
before sliced bread?
- What color did carrots used to
be?
- Why do many American spellings differ from their
British counterparts?
- What does it mean "to have
one's eyes lined with ham"?
- If you claim to know the
answers to these questions, then you're John Hodgman. If you
had to look for them below, you need this
book.
Kee Malesky, author of All Facts
Considered, returns with a year's worth of facts on the
arts, history, language, natural history, religion, and
science to build up your brain. From the only sea without a
coastline to the origin of April Fool's Day, this book is
the best way to know more stuff than that other
guy. Learn Something New Every Day is the ideal
gift for those with inquisitive minds and an appreciation of
the wonders of the world around us. But don't give it to
them. You don't want them to know more than you do.
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