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For years, Kenneth C. Davis has enlightened and enthralled us, opening our minds and tickling our fancies with his wonderfully irreverent, fun, and factual Don't Know Much About® books. He has carried readers on wild and edifying rides through history, mythology, geography, the Bible, the Civil War, even across the universe. Now, following on the heels of his triumphant New York Times bestseller Don't Know Much About® Anything, comes Don't Know...
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Do spiders sleep? Why are barns red? Why is there a crescent moon on outhouse doors? Are zebras white with black stripes or black with white stripes?
As the Xerox Corporation's official webmaster, Bill McLain often fielded as many as 1,000 questions a day on just about everything under the sun -- and beyond. The wildest, funniest, and even most astute are collected here (along with their answers) in McLain's second volume that's as fascinating and...
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Big big volume 2
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"In a world that doesn't always welcome big questions, a persistent and inquisitive girl keeps asking them anyway--because asking questions is how we learn and grow"--
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Just when you thought that it was safe to start showing off again, John Lloyd and John Mitchinson are back with another busload of mistakes and misunderstandings. Here is a new collection of simple, perfectly obvious questions you'll be quite certain you know the answers to. Whether it's history, science, sports, geography, literature, language, medicine, the classics, or common wisdom, you'll be astonished to discover that everything you thought...
69) The book of whys
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Factual as well as whimsical, and humorously illustrated, this is the first English-language publication of answers--featuring facts, rhymes, and little stories and poems--given by one of Italy's most beloved children's authors to 80 children's questions about animals, nature, technology, and culture.
Factual as well as whimsical, and humorously illustrated, this is the first English-language publication of the answers given by one of Italy's greatest...
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The host of the eponymous podcast "takes readers on an adventure through several well-researched categories of facts and trivia . . . with a dash of humor" (Elise Hennessy, author of the Blood Legacy series).
So what if you picked up some historical inaccuracies (and flat-out myths) in history class. Your Brain on Facts is here to teach and reteach readers relevant trivia. It explains surprising science in simple language, gives the unexpected origins...
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Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and text highlighting to engage reluctant readers! Bats are blind. An old dog can't learn new tricks. The early bird catches the worm. You may have heard some of these common sayings or beliefs before. But are they really true? Can they be proven using science? Let's investigate seventeen statements about animals and find out which ones are right, which ones are wrong, and which ones still...
77) There
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A young girl asks questions about growing up as she walks over rolling hills, climbs a ladder up to the stars, and meets a dragon.
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Answers to the questions that keep you up at night-from Why is bellybutton lint generally blue? to Why does catnip affect cats?
BAFFLING AND BIZARRE.
ENTERTAINING AND ENLIGHTENING.
This witty and compulsive collection of trivia will captivate and surprise you with its fun and funky revelations. You'll learn...
• Why New York is called "the Big Apple"
• How people count cards at casinos
• What keeps the head on a glass of beer
• Why you...
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"A former skeptic, Lee Strobel was convinced by the miracle of the resurrection that Jesus is the Son of God. This launched him on a two-year investigation of whether God is still performing miracles today. After witnessing multiple events in which God unmistakably intervened in people's lives in dramatic and well-documented ways, he was a skeptic no more. Through his research he also explored the existence of fake miracles, how God may use dreams...
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