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The De-Textbook by Cracked.com
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-10-29 | Author:Cracked.com

FIGURE 5.11 In hindsight, there may have been a less violent way to illustrate this point. Bullets Don’t Explode Everything In the movies, bullets and anything mildly flammable have a ...
( Category: Parodies November 24,2014 )
History Decoded by Brad Meltzer
mobi |eng | 2013-10-22 | Author:Brad Meltzer

Heinrich Himmler was the head of the SS, Hitler’s most elite military group. He was also the man behind the horrors of the extermination camps, where more than six million ...
( Category: Trivia November 13,2014 )
The Hollywood Book of Death: The Bizarre, Often Sordid, Passings of More than 125 American Movie and TV Idols by Parish James Robert
epub |eng | 2001-11-29 | Author:Parish, James Robert [Parish, James Robert]

Tyrone Power [Tyrone Power Jr.] May 5, 1913–November 15, 1958 Tyrone Power’s frequent costar, Alice Faye, said it all: “He was the best-looking thing I’ve ever seen in my life. ...
( Category: Reference November 12,2014 )
Now I Know More by Lewis Dan
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Lewis, Dan

THE MADMAN IN THE WHITE HOUSE RICHARD NIXON’S CRAZY THEORY ON PREVENTING A NUCLEAR WAR For most of the Cold War, three words dictated the game theory outcomes behind military ...
( Category: History November 12,2014 )
A Short History Of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-10-07 | Author:Bill Bryson

So what accounts for all this wondrous complexity? Well, one possibility is that perhaps it isn’t quite-not quite-so wondrous as at first it seems. Take those amazingly improbable proteins. The ...
( Category: Astronomy November 11,2014 )
What Did We Use Before Toilet Paper? by Andrew Thompson
epub |eng | 2010-08-26 | Author:Andrew Thompson

WHAT IS COCA-COLA MADE FROM AND DID IT ONCE CONTAIN COCAINE? Since its invention, the ingredients of Coca-Cola have been kept a long-guarded secret, which has both prevented others from ...
( Category: Trivia November 11,2014 )
You Might Be a Zombie and Other Bad News: Shocking but Utterly True Facts by Cracked.Com
mobi |eng | 2010-12-28 | Author:Cracked.Com

Where it really gets weird . . . In 2008, the Wall Street Journal reported on a series of experiments being conducted with brain scanners in Germany, Norway, and the ...
( Category: Parodies November 11,2014 )
The Book of General Ignorance by John Lloyd & John Mitchinson
epub |eng | 2007-08-07 | Author:John Lloyd & John Mitchinson [Lloyd, John & Mitchinson, John]

What are violin strings made from? Violin strings are not made of catgut, and never have been. This is a myth started by medieval Italian violin-makers who had discovered that ...
( Category: Trivia November 11,2014 )
Hmm...I Did Not Know That, 1,000 random & interesting facts on a variety of subjects by AP Holiday
mobi |eng | 2011-05-10 | Author:AP Holiday

512. American Eddie Eagan won gold medals in both the summer and winter Olympics, for boxing in 1920 and bobsledding in 1932. 513. The average diameter of the Earth is ...
( Category: Trivia October 27,2014 )
Is That a Fact? : Frauds, Quacks, and the Real Science of Everyday Life by Schwarcz Joe
mobi |eng | 2014-03-07 | Author:Schwarcz, Joe [Schwarcz, Joe]

Breatharians and Nutritarians Breatharians and nutritarians. Never heard of them? One represents the extent of human folly, while the other is a scientifically legitimate attempt to improve health. A breatharian ...
( Category: Trivia October 27,2014 )
Sorry, Wrong Answer by Rod L. Evans Ph.D
epub |eng | 2010-03-25 | Author:Rod L. Evans, Ph.D.

The words, then, are not addressed to Hemingway but to the readers of the story. Hemingway, however, connected himself to “The Rich Boy” in August 1936, ten years after Fitzgerald’s ...
( Category: Trivia October 16,2014 )
Why Don't Penguins' Feet Freeze?: And 114 Other Questions by New Scientist
epub, mobi |eng | 2007-06-01 | Author:New Scientist [Scientist, New]

Beer is ‘raw’ immediately after fermentation, and any harsh sugars that are present, such as the Belgian candy used in some beers, burn the nose, while the hops taste like ...
( Category: Trivia October 1,2014 )
The Amazing Book of Useless Information by Noel Botham
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Noel Botham

A FRESH TAKE Success is a great deodorant. It takes away all your past smells. Elizabeth Taylor The duration of a film should not exceed the capacity of the human ...
( Category: Trivia September 25,2014 )
Uncle John's Endlessly Engrossing Bathroom Reader by Bathroom Readers' Institute
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-09-20 | Author:Bathroom Readers' Institute

TOILET TECH: BABY EDITION Here at the BRI, we never get tired of reading about new bathroom inventions. But it turns out that they’re not all yucky fart-and- odor-related appliances ...
( Category: Trivia September 25,2014 )
Uncle John’s Certified Organic Bathroom Reader by Bathroom Readers’ Institute
epub |eng | | Author:Bathroom Readers’ Institute [Bathroom Readers’ Institute]

WHAT’S THE BEEF? U.S. beef is the healthiest food in the entire world. Ever. (We were told to say that by our law firm—Flankman, Chuckerson, and Ribeye.) THE UNITED STEAKS ...
( Category: Trivia September 25,2014 )

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