A Startling Collection of Over 1000 Things You ll Never Need to Know.
Improve your small talk and sharpen your conversational skills with this giant
collection of ridiculously useless but endlessly fascinating facts. Did you know
that cats were once used to deliver mail in Belgium? That the .huddle. in football
became popular after a deaf player began using it to prevent other teams from
reading his sign language? That the average American eats 30 pounds of cheese
in a year? Organized from A to Z, there are over 1,000 trivia tidbits for you to
peruse.
Start off with little-known facts about Aristotle and Barbie, and continue until
you.ve discovered hidden gems about zombies, zippers, and more! Did you know that
Levi Strauss originally intended to sell canvas tents to miners in California but
ended up using the fabric to make what the prospectors really needed.pants?
Or that a chicken in Colorado had its head cut off and managed to live for another
two years? Did you know that if Americans were to switch just 10 percent of their
total mileage to scooters, we would consume 14 million gallons less fuel and
reduce CO2 emissions by 324 million pounds in just one day? Or that on May 15th,
1950, Coca-Cola became the first product ever to appear on the cover of Time
magazine? 50 black-and-white illustrations
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