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A World of Curiosities: Surprising, Interesting, and Downright Unbelievable Facts from Every Nation on the Planet

af John Oldale

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A globe-trotting collection of funny and poignant facts and trivia brings together more than two thousand pieces of interesting information from around the world.
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Awesome book, so full of useful and useless trivia; it was such an entertaining pleasure to read; it's funny, weird and shocking!
Only disadvantage is that it's printed so small that reading it probably ruined by eyesight even more. But it was worth it! ( )
  borhap | Aug 27, 2013 |
This book may well represent the densest collection of trivia I've ever had occasion to read. I got this copy from the library, but I might have to buy one for myself. ( )
1 stem Literate.Ninja | Aug 29, 2012 |
This is a very impressive collection! I have long been a compiler of useless facts and trivia and I've seen it all before, so to speak, but 95% of the information in this book was entirely new to me. (Did you know Genghis Khan was a redhead? That Switzerland "accidentally" invaded Luxembourg with a force of 200 soldiers in 2007 and nobody in Luxembourg noticed? That the Hungarian language has 18 cases, 72 verb forms and no word for "to have"?) This would make good toilet and/or bedside reading, since the entries are short, and there are illustrations.

My only complaint is that I think the book could have been more democratic in terms of page space. The majority of countries got one page, but some got three or four, and in some cases he crammed several countries (almost all the Pacific island nations, for example, like Kiribati and Micronesia) into one or two pages. It would have been nice if each country got equal coverage. I understand that, say, Vanuatu, is not as significant as Japan or the United States, but surely Oldale could have come up with enough facts about it to cover a single page. ( )
  meggyweg | May 6, 2012 |
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