Cats Are Capable of Mind Control: And 1,000+ UberFacts You Never Knew You Needed to Know - Hardcover

Sanchez, Kris

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0062441167 ISBN 13: 9780062441164

Publisher: Dey Street Books, 2016

Synopsis

From the creator of the popular Twitter sensation UberFacts comes this fun compilation quiz book, packed with entertaining infographics and surprising factoids, for fans of Schott’s Miscellany, What If? and Ripley’s Believe It or Not.

Providing "the most unimportant things you’ll never need to know”—fun and surprising facts, statistics, and infographics on diverse subjects, from art and science to history and popular culture—UberFacts has become one of the most widely followed and successful accounts on Twitter, followed by nearly 12 million people.

Based on the popular social media phenomenon and culled from an exhaustive variety of sources—science journals, books, media, and literary magazines—Cats are Capable of Mind Control is a fascinating collection of shocking, delightful, educational, and informative facts and figures that are entertaining, topical, and sometimes downright bizarre (the safest place to suffer sudden cardiac arrest in the U.S. is a casino).

Did you know:

• The Pentagon was constructed so that no point in the building is more than a ten-minute walk from any other point?
• Vultures’ stomach acid is so corrosive they can digest anthrax?
• Farmers in India use Coca-Cola and Pepsi as cheap and effective pesticides?

Discover all this and much, much more in this treasure trove of trivia for the social media age.

About this title

From the Back Cover

From the topical to the bizarre, some facts need more than 140 characters

You hold within your hands the cure to boredom and the key to wisdom. UberFacts—the Internet’s most widely followed and wildly popular source of ferociously fun facts—presents the essential collection of trivia. Surprising, educational, gross, and downright delightful, UberFacts brings you weird news, hysterical history, and need-to-know statistics for just about everything. Cats that are capable of mind control is just one of the many fascinating facts you’ll find inside.

• A candle’s flame contains millions of microscopic diamonds.
• The tomato has more genes than a human being.
• Snot from a sneeze can travel up to 200 mph.
• Horror writer Stephen King sleeps with the lights on.
• The Mariko Aoki phenomenon is the urge to defecate after smelling books.

You’re welcome, readers.

Edition details

• Publisher: Dey Street Books
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0062441167
• ISBN 13: 9780062441164
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 272