Description From Kirkus Reviews:
A fun, fact-filled snack for the terminally informed. Who would ask or answer a question like, ``Do people who were born blind ever dream?'' The answer is, a Webmaster at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. And yes, blind people hear and feel in their dreams. In 20 chapters like Food, Music, Finance, Words, and including Odds and Ends and Off the Wall, McLain provides intriguing questions and answers along with subsections like Did You Know?, Factoids, and references to Web sites and Internet resources for further information (including Santas e-mail address). The many diverse facts are enlivened by the authors wit, so that the Sports question ``What is the difference between billiards, snooker, and pool?'' is followed by the parenthetic ``Are you waiting for a cue?'' Many of the Ripleys-type facts intend to astound more than stump, such as the printing of a $100,000 bill and the existence of a 12,000- year-old shrub. Other information challenges us to know why ``Geronimo'' is yelled before leaping (the chief escaped the cavalry with a daring jump) or why our keyboards are designed as they are (the T and H keys require different fingers to keep typewriters from jamming). Most of the challenges challenge, but we knew that green mailboxes arent for mailing. At least half of the book, however, is stuff we didnt want to know, such as that a Johnny Carson joke began a toilet-paper shortage, that theres a name on the US map 49 letters long, and that the nations favorite pizza topping is pepperoni. If going to the beach this August and being out of touch with our information overload makes you feel like a fish out water, then this is the book to take along.

This book was published in 1999, so some of the information in here is outdated (like the rollercoaster and hurricane statistics.) Also - now you can climb to the top of the Tower of Pisa again. But this was still an entertaining read. I wrote down some of the websites so I could check if they still existed because they sounded interesting.

RELEASE NOTES:

On the bench next to the Lego Man.

Released for the Never Judge a Book By Its Cover Challenge. Enjoy!

I found it beside the lego man at norstom mall at Chicago during a very pleasent travel. i kind of love this kind of reading of hints and trivial information, im thinking of give away the book to a friend that shares this love for useless information haha and i think he´ll release it away by mexico city area.

CAUGHT IN CHICAGO DOWNTOWN ILLINOIS USA

im going to give the book to a friend.

My brother found the book while traveling in the US. He handed it to me and I haven't read it yet. I'll tell you later.

this is one of the best toilet books I've ever had. you can just open it randomly and read as many facts as you like with no attachment to the page numbers. I'm really enjoing it...

I forgot to make this note before... I finished it and now it's traveling again. I gave it to a friend who lives in mexico city. No more beach, no beer and no fried fish.
Thanks for share this. Very peculiar information, jejeje