Oddly Informative: Matters of fact that amaze and delight

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The more we ponder, the odder the world can seem.

Why are coups making a comeback
What counts as a journey into space
Which countries cheat the most in athletics
Is the tale of the difficult second novel fact or fiction

The keen minds at The Economist contemplate all these and more in their quest for the globe's most extraordinary and up-to-date quandaries and conundrums, brought together in this latest annual compilation of the oddest and the most mind-boggling. Amaze and delight everyone you know with bizarre facts and headscratchers that show the world is even stranger than we might have thought.

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'Praise for Tom Standage:

'Uncommonly brilliant' - Daily Mail

'The Father Christmas of knowledge' - Giles Coren

'Books like this make you wary of ever guessing the answer to anything' - Daily Mail

Author Bio

Tom Standage is Deputy Editor of The Economist. He is the author of several books, including Truly Peculiar, A Brief History of Motion, Uncommon Knowledge, Writing on the Wall: Social Media - The First 2,000 Years and The Victorian Internet. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian and Wired.