Cats Are Capable of Mind Control - And 1,000+ UberFacts You Never Knew You Needed to Know

Klappentext From the topical to the bizarre, some facts need more than 140 characters You hold within your hands the cure to boredom and the key to wisdom. UberFacts—the Internet’s most widely followed and wildly popular source of ferociously fun facts—presents the essential collection of trivia. Surprising, educational, gross, and downright delightful, UberFacts brings you weird news, hysterical history, and need-to-know statistics for just about everything. Cats that are capable of mind control is just one of the many fascinating facts you’ll find inside. A candle’s flame contains millions of microscopic diamonds. The tomato has more genes than a human being. Snot from a sneeze can travel up to 200 mph. Horror writer Stephen King sleeps with the lights on. The Mariko Aoki phenomenon is the urge to defecate after smelling books. You’re welcome, readers. Zusammenfassung From the creator of the popular Twitter sensation UberFacts comes this fun compilation quiz book! packed with entertaining infographics and surprising factoids! for fans of Schott’s Miscellany! What If? and Ripley’s Believe It or Not. Providing "the most unimportant things you’ll never need to know”—fun and surprising facts! statistics! and infographics on diverse subjects! from art and science to history and popular culture—UberFacts has become one of the most widely followed and successful accounts on Twitter! followed by nearly 12 million people. Based on the popular social media phenomenon and culled from an exhaustive variety of sources—science journals! books! media! and literary magazines— Cats are Capable of Mind Control is a fascinating collection of shocking! delightful! educational! and informative facts and figures that are entertaining! topical! and sometimes downright bizarre (the safest place to suffer sudden cardiac arrest in the U.S. is a casino). Did you know: The Pentagon was constructed so that no point in the building is more than a ten-minute walk from any other point? Vultures’ stomach acid is so corrosive they can digest anthrax? Farmers in India use Coca-Cola and Pepsi as cheap and effective pesticides? Discover all this and much! much more in this treasure trove of trivia for the social media age. ...

Product details

• Authors: Kris Sanchez
• Publisher: Dey Street Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2016
• EAN: 9780062441164
• ISBN: 978-0-06-244116-4
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 178 mm x 23 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Comic, cartoon, humour, satire; Guides > Hobby, home > Games, quizzes; Science Fiction, Fantasy, Science: general issues, History of Science, Reference works, General and world history, Comedy and stand-up, Humour collections and anthologies, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Trivia and quiz questions, Parodies and spoofs: non-fiction, Film: styles and genres, Film, television, radio genres: Comedy and humour, HUMOR: Form / Parodies, HUMOR: Form / Essays, HISTORY: Women, PERFORMING ARTS: Film / Genres / Comedy, SCIENCE: Essays, HISTORY: Reference, SCIENCE: History, PERFORMING ARTS: Film / Genres / Science Fiction & Fantasy, LITERARY CRITICISM: Science Fiction & Fantasy, HUMOR: Form / Trivia