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YOU LEARN SOMETHING NEW EVERY DAY
By: 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."
βSusan 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."
βCarl 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.
 Media BuzzWeekend Edition Saturday - October 13, 2012
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