The Utterly Completely And Totally Useless Fact O Pedia

Author : Charlotte Lowe
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1626366144
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Utterly, Completely, and Totally Useless Fact-O-Pedia written by Charlotte Lowe and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-01-17 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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?

Author : Charlotte Lowe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780007424993
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Utterly, Completely, and Totally Useless History Fact-o-pedia written by Charlotte Lowe and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects obscure facts from history, including that FDR's mother made him wear a dress until he was five years old, Napoleon was afraid of cats, and the notepade was created by the Australians in 1902.

Author : Wendy Leonard
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780007927791
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Utterly, Completely, and Totally Useless Science Fact-O-pedia written by Wendy Leonard and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 2013 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organised from A (Amino Acids) to Z (Zombie Etiquette) and packed with great cartoons The Utterly, Completely, and Totally Useless Science Fact O Pedia is a treasure trove of fun facts for the inquiring mind.

Author : Charlotte Lowe
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1616081910
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Utterly, Completely, and Totally Useless Fact-O-Pedia written by Charlotte Lowe and published by Skyhorse Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 2011-01-17 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Improve your small talk and sharpen your conversational skills with this giant collection of ridiculously useless but endlessly fascinating...

Author : Wendy Leonard, PhD MPH
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 000751946X
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Utterly, Completely, and Totally Useless Science Fact-o-pedia: A Startling Collection of Scientific Trivia You’ll Never Need to Know written by Wendy Leonard, PhD MPH and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2013-01-31 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Calling all trivia buffs! Loaded with over 200 entries and almost 2,000 bits of trivia, this book will arm you with hundreds of useless scientific tidbits – perfect for curious minds.

Author : Alex McFarland
Publisher : Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 162405188X
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The 21 Toughest Questions Your Kids Will Ask about Christianity written by Alex McFarland and published by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: University apologist, director, and popular speaker Alex McFarland has spent the last two decades answering questions about Christian worldview and the Bible from children, teens, and parents. In The 21 Toughest Questions Your Kids Will Ask about Christianity, he summarizes questions today’s children and teens are asking about God, the Bible, and the problem of evil. Alex’s experiences have taught him that how adults answer questions about God is as important as, if not more important than, what kids ask. He provides parents with teaching strategies that will help them reach their children intellectually and spiritually. Today’s kids and teens are looking for authenticity, integrity, and straightforward truth. Alex comes alongside parents and gives them tools to effectively answer not only their children’s toughest academic questions but also the questions that plague their hearts.

Author : Jennifer Bromann-Bender
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810888092
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Booktalking Nonfiction written by Jennifer Bromann-Bender and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2013-12-20 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Booktalking Nonfiction: 200 Sure-Fire Winners for Middle and High School Readers will provide an introduction to selecting and writing booktalks for nonfiction books with a focus on unique informational texts and biographies and autobiographies. A booktalk is a summary of a book presented in a way that would interest someone in reading the book described. Why non-fiction? Because the Common Core Standards Initiative, which most states have adopted, requires that 70% of the materials students read be from the category of informational texts it is especially important to focus on nonfiction when sharing books with students. Here’s everything you need to do just that. Chapters cover selecting, writing, preparing, and presenting booktalks, special tips for high-interest, low-level books, and using non-fiction in the library and the classroom. Two hundred ready-to-present booktalks arranged by genre are also included. Genres include animals, famous people, sports, crime and serial killers, movies and television, religion, war, history, and the supernatural.

Author : John Mitchinson
Publisher : Crown Archetype
ISBN 13 : 0307405516
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Book of General Ignorance written by John Mitchinson and published by Crown Archetype. This book was released on 2007-08-07 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Misconceptions, misunderstandings, and flawed facts finally get the heave-ho in this humorous, downright humiliating book of reeducation based on the phenomenal British bestseller. Challenging what most of us assume to be verifiable truths in areas like history, literature, science, nature, and more,The Book of General Ignorance is a witty “gotcha” compendium of how little we actually know about anything. It’ll have you scratching your head wondering why we even bother to go to school. Think Magellan was the first man to circumnavigate the globe, baseball was invented in America, Henry VIII had six wives, Mount Everest is the tallest mountain? Wrong, wrong, wrong, and wrong again. You’ll be surprised at how much you don’t know! Check out The Book of General Ignorance for more fun entries and complete answers to the following: How long can a chicken live without its head? About two years. What do chameleons do? They don’t change color to match the background. Never have; never will. Complete myth. Utter fabrication. Total Lie. They change color as a result of different emotional states. How many legs does a centipede have? Not a hundred. How many toes has a two-toed sloth? It’s either six or eight. Who was the first American president? Peyton Randolph. What were George Washington’s false teeth made from? Mostly hippopotamus. What was James Bond’s favorite drink? Not the vodka martini.

Author : Charlotte Lowe
Publisher : Skyhorse
ISBN 13 : 9781616082093
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Utterly, Completely, and Totally Useless History Fact-O-Pedia written by Charlotte Lowe and published by Skyhorse. This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did you know: One of the more obvious typos in the U.S. Constitution is the misspelling of the word “Pensylvania” above the names of the signatories; or that in 682 A.D. the drought was so bad that the Saxons in the south of England eventually ate their children! Organized from A to Z, there are more than 1,000 historical trivia tidbits for you to peruse. Start off with little known facts about Abraham Lincoln, and continue until you’ve discovered hidden gems about Yosemite National Park, Zeus, and more! The Utterly, Completely, and Totally Useless History Fact-O-Pedia is a treasure trove for the inquiring mind.

Author : Will Pearson
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062069314
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book mental_floss written by Will Pearson and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For ten years, the knowledge seekers at mental_floss have been hunting and trapping the world’s rarest facts, locking them into captivating lists for the world to admire. Thanks to their tireless efforts, Mental Floss: The Book is packed with a decade’s worth of the smartest, quirkiest stories around, including: Five Presidential Fashion Flubs Seven Shameless Abuses of Diplomatic Immunity Five Units of Measurement Weirder Than the Metric System Four Toys That Have Gone to War for America Seven Reasons Mister Rogers Was the Best Neighbor Ever Five Things Your Body Can Do After You Die Six of Baseball’s Strangest Trades Four Foods People Actually Die For Seven Things Walmart Has Banned Four TV Shows That Changed the Course of History Ten “Q” Words That Aren’t “Q-U” Words Four Horrifying Parasites to Keep You Awake at Night Eight Fake Archaeological Finds Five Articles of Clothing That Caused Riots Four Memorable Moments in Cross-Dressing History Five Doomsdays We’ve Already Survived And 124 Other Extraordinary Lists!