Trivia & Fun Facts
epub |eng | 2007-06-01 | Author:William Hartston [Hartston, William]

LIECHTENSTEIN Liechtenstein is the last survivor of the 343 states that once made up the Holy Roman Empire of German Nations. The national anthem is sung to the same tune ...
( Category: Trivia June 12,2015 )
mobi |eng | 1997-01-06 | Author:Hans Holzer

* 71 A California Ghost Story LITTLE DID I KNOW when I had successfully investigated the haunted apartment of Mrs. Verna Kunze in San Bernardino, that Mrs. Kunze would lead ...
( Category: Supernatural June 11,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-09-01 | Author:Lloyd, John & Mitchinson, John [Lloyd, John]

LONG-DISTANCE KILLER Can run at 35 mph for 3 miles. Spotted hyenas are Africa’s dominant predator, responsible for a quarter of all game animals killed. Lions are their only rivals, ...
( Category: Animal Behavior & Communication June 11,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-11-10 | Author:Garth Sundem

AT-HOME EYE EXAM Have years of monitor viewing blended your optical rod cells into slurried mush? Or perhaps your myopic vision is due to late nights spent reading manga by ...
( Category: Satire April 5,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-04-30 | Author:Chetwynd, Josh [Chetwynd, Josh]

But more than even its medicinal qualities, Alka-Seltzer became a triumph in marketing. Hub’s brother Charles invested heavily in sponsoring radio shows, which gave the product a huge bounce. Later, ...
( Category: History April 5,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Simon Barnes

* * * I. The common poorwill, a nightjar relative that lives in the United States, does actually hibernate. A number of species – some swifts, nightjars and hummingbirds – ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers March 21,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-05-31 | Author:Bathroom Readers' Institute

* * * 81% of men think that they’re above-average drivers. Only 67% of women do. * * * Creepy Bonus: Later in 2009, biophysicist Gabor Horvath at Eotvos University ...
( Category: Trivia March 18,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Martin Plimmer

3 FANCY MEETING YOU HERE It’s not just a small world. It’s a small world with billions of people in it. At the time of writing this sentence there were, ...
( Category: Chaos Theory March 4,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-04-14 | Author:Quinn, Tom [Quinn, Tom]

TRAFALGAR SQUARE – PERMANENTLY UNFINISHED 1838 Present-day Trafalgar Square is built on the site where Henry VIII and earlier kings once kept their birds of prey and their horses. The ...
( Category: England March 4,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-10-16 | Author:Cumont, Franz [Cumont, Franz]

Fig. 22. MITHRAIC KRONOS (ÆON, OR INFINITE TIME). Nude leontocephalous figure standing upright on a globe; in each hand a key; four wings; thrice entwined by a serpent, the head ...
( Category: Religion February 15,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-05-15 | Author:Shaun Gallagher

---------------- 53% of people say their closest platonic friend is more attractive than they are. But among left-handers, only 36% say their closest platonic friend is more attractive than they ...
( Category: Trivia January 29,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-08-27 | Author:Hans Holzer [Holzer, Hans]

* 155 Diary of a Poltergeist PAUL LEUTHOLD IS A MAN in his late forties with a pleasant personality and reasonably good educational background, perhaps better read than most farmers ...
( Category: Trivia & Fun Facts January 29,2015 )
epub |eng | 2010-02-28 | Author:Melissa J. Morgan

chapter SIX Natalie> TUESDAY After school, Natalie found Hannah at her locker. They hadn’t talked to each other the day before, and Nat really hoped Hannah wasn’t still upset about ...
( Category: Girls & Women January 29,2015 )
epub |eng | 2010-09-01 | Author:Phil Mason [Mason, Phil]

Walter Hunt, a New York mechanic, invented the safety pin in 1849 in just three hours, to pay off a $15 debt. He saw no commercial value in the idea, ...
( Category: World January 29,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2006-07-24 | Author:Mark Leyner

WHY DO YOUR EYES WATER WHEN YOU POOP? Okay, well maybe it doesn’t happen to everyone when they poop, but someone who will remain nameless is known to get teary ...
( Category: Humor January 29,2015 )