The Book of Facts and Trivia: Science
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Publishing Details
The Book of Facts and Trivia: Science
By (Author) Terri Schlichenmeyer
Visible Ink Press
Visible Ink Press
2nd January 2025
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Miscellanies and compendia
Science: general issues
502
Physical Properties
Paperback
300
Width 152mm, Height 228mm, Spine 20mm
Description
Entertaining, informative, and fun. Educational, trivial, and profound. Astonishing, amazing, and surprising. Science has never been so much fun! Take a weird and wonderful tour of the every branch of science with this treat of stories, trivia, and facts!
From Earths weight gain thanks to the many tons of cosmic dust that falls on the planet each year to William A. Mitchell (19112004), the inventor of Tang, Cool Whip, and Pop Rocks candy, The Book of Facts and Trivia: Science combines the educational, profound, and trivial into a fascinating collection of science facts! Youll learn about yourself and the world through hundreds of absorbing stories and interesting tidbits such as
Sixteen million men about 0.2 percent of the world's population carry genetic material traced back to Genghis Khan.
One teaspoon of neuron star weighs about 10 million tons.
There are more than 2 million ants for every single person on Earth. Thats approximately 20 quadrillion ants!
Under the right conditions, some dogs the super-scenters can smell you some 12 miles away.
The body of Marie Curie (1867-1934), the physicist who discovered radium, is still radioactive.
The first multiplication tables were used around 2000 B.C.E. by the Babylonians.
Star Trek
characters used devices that looked and acted quite a bit like cell phoneswell before the technology came to market. Touchscreen computers too.
And many more science facts!
An absorbing guide to science answers, The Book of Facts and Trivia is a treat of stories, facts, and trivia guaranteed to both inform and entertain. Its a feast of fun oddities that are delightfully eye-opening!
Author Bio
Terri Schlichenmeyer is an award-winning, self-syndicated book reviewer. In addition to several columns written each week, she wrote Visible Ink Presss The Big Book of Facts and The Book of Facts and Trivia: American History, and she has also contributed to Uncle Johns Bathroom Readers and other trivia books. You can read Terris book reviews in more than 150 newspapers and magazines throughout the world. She lives in a little corner of Wisconsin with two dogs and one very patient man.
