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Summary: Lots of fascinating information
Review: I picked this book up because I spotted the name of the second author (David Samson) and one of his other books ("Joy of Depression") is one of my favorites. (It's hilarious.) Well, his humor made this one great also. As did the information. I thought I knew who was the first President of the United States. Wrong. Plus now I know which company invented heroin and what other animal on the planet has human fingerprints besides us -- and it's not chimpanzees or gorillas! Thanks to hundreds of fascinating tidbits, it's hard to put this one down. I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to know lots of really unusual but really fun things too and wants to enjoy reading about it. Dry it isn't!!
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Summary: Lots of fascinating information
Review: I picked this book up because I spotted the name of the second author (David Samson) and one of his other books ("Joy of Depression") is one of my favorites. (It's hilarious.) Well, his humor made this one great also. As did the information. I thought I knew who was the first President of the United States. Wrong. Plus now I know which company invented heroin and what other animal on the planet has human fingerprints besides us -- and it's not chimpanzees or gorillas! Thanks to hundreds of fascinating tidbits, it's hard to put this one down. I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to know lots of really unusual but really fun things too and wants to enjoy reading about it. Dry it isn't!!
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Summary: WRONG
Review: The Answers to the questions are wrong!! For Examples - they state the largest lake in the WORLD is Lk. Superior.. Nope, Caspian Sea. (Please look up the word lake!!)
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Summary: Don't believe everything you read
Review: This book is a fun collection of obscure "facts", but shouldn't be taken too seriously, as there are errors on almost every page. The Philco Predicta wasn't the first TV set made (it dates from 1958)... Those of us who watched Howdy Doody on NBC in 1950 will be surprised to hear that Captain Kangaroo was the first network TV kid show in 1954... Napoleon certainly didn't appoint Louis Pasteur to a committee to study food preservation for his invasion of Russia in 1812, since Pasteur was born in 1822... Nor is chi a letter of the Hebrew Alphabet.My favorite entry is the one for the legendary Betsy Ross, alleged not only to have made the first American flag, but to have designed it (!), and to have been born with a full set of teeth in her mouth (!!).
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Summary: Don't believe everything you read
Review: This book is a fun collection of obscure "facts", but shouldn't be taken too seriously, as there are errors on almost every page. The Philco Predicta wasn't the first TV set made (it dates from 1958)... Those of us who watched Howdy Doody on NBC in 1950 will be surprised to hear that Captain Kangaroo was the first network TV kid show in 1954... Napoleon certainly didn't appoint Louis Pasteur to a committee to study food preservation for his invasion of Russia in 1812, since Pasteur was born in 1822... Nor is chi a letter of the Hebrew Alphabet. My favorite entry is the one for the legendary Betsy Ross, alleged not only to have made the first American flag, but to have designed it (!), and to have been born with a full set of teeth in her mouth (!!).
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