Attention all Swifties: This is the ultimate coloring book and activity book for Taylor Swift super fans!Over 30 coloring pages of Taylor Swift performing, posing on the red carpet, and other Taylor-themed designsFun facts all about Swift's career, favorite things, early years, fashion style, music evolution, and moreQuizzes and puzzles to test your Taylor Swift knowledge, including mazes, spot-the-difference, and word searchesFull-color photos of Taylor's concerts, red carpet walks, and award ceremony appearancesTaylor Swift is a superstar, a global sensation, and the greatest singer-songwriter of her generation! There's no better way for Swifties to celebrate all Taylor's amazing achievements and her dynamic personality than with the SUPER FAN-tastic Taylor Swift Coloring & Activity Book!The perfect gift for a Swiftie of any age - kids, teens, or adults - inside this unofficial Taylor Swift celebration, you'll unleash your creativity, test your Swift knowledge, and solve fun quizzes, games, and puzzles that range from easy to challenging and are all dedicated to the unstoppable force that is Taylor Swift!33 high-quality line art designs capture T-Swizzle's facial expressions and personality, and each page is accompanied by a fun fact about the musician so iconic she's known simply as: The Music Industry. Learn fascinating trivia about her career, revisit songs from her early performances, and learn details of her early years, her songwriting and music style evolution, and her iconic fashion looks. You'll also find incredible full color photographs of Swift throughout the years, 7 fun-filled activity pages, 3 test-your-knowledge quizzes, and an answer key in the back of the book.SUPER FAN-tastic Taylor Swift Coloring & Activity Book makes the perfect birthday present or Christmas gift for any Taylor Swift fan! Read more

Want to impress your friends and family with both useful, worthless but undeniably interesting facts?Then Interesting Facts For Curious Minds: 1572 Random But Mind Blowing Facts About History, Science, Pop Culture and Everything in Between is the book for you!In this book you’ll find the answers to questions such as:When did zero become a number?Who was the inventor of Bitcoin?What did the Big Bang sound like?How have sports changed around the world?What’s a malapropism?Interesting Facts For Curious Minds gives you the answer to all these and many, many more questions that I know have crossed your mind from time to time. This book is divided into 63 chapters by topic for your convenience, bringing you a nice mix of science, history, pop culture, and all sorts of stuff in between. Each chapter contains 25 concise yet engaging factoids that are sure to make you think and at times laugh.How you read this book is entirely up to you. I’m sure most of you will read it cover to cover at some point, but when you’re with friends and family you can pick the chapters out that most appeal to all of you.However you read this book, I guarantee you’ll find it one of the best tools to pass some time, relax alone, or connect with others. So sit back, relax, and get ready to learn some truly interesting facts! Read more

Get answers to questions to you didn’t even know to ask! The perfect book for anyone with a curious mind and a passion for learning, The Book of Unusual Knowledge is crammed full of interesting facts and mind-blowing information. The book includes more than 20 chapters themed around such topics as Movies and Television, American Landmarks, Art and Literature, Animals, Earth and the Universe, Holidays, Pop Culture, the Supernatural, History, and more. Engaging articles, lists of factoids, and games provide hours of fascinating reading, from the useful to the obscure. Learn about such diverse topics as radio soap operas in the 1930s, Hollywood urban legends, how Route 66 got its start, strange sporting events, the inventor of the Zamboni, the science behind the phenomena of “singing sand,” the story behind Mary Shelley’s creation of Frankenstein, and presidential pets Hardcover, 704 pages. A great gift for any trivia buff in your life! Read more

Want to impress your buddies at the bar? Need to think of something interesting to do at the next family gathering? Want to learn a bunch of random facts about history, science, true crime, and the paranormal?Pick up Interesting Stories for Curious People, the ultimate guidebook for a plethora of interesting facts about a whole bunch of several different topics. A quick read packed with information from cover to cover.Here you will find out:How did a Frenchman successfully use a spontaneous combustion defense during a murder trial?How did a German teenager help end the Cold War?Why did some really smart guys think foam houses would be the wave of the future?What is a chupacabra and why are there two of them?Did Cleopatra really die from a snake bite?You’ll be glued to the pages of this book reading interesting fact after interesting fact as Interesting Stories for Curious People brings you the in-depth knowledge of some things you may have heard about and always wondered, but now will learn the truth. You’ll finally be able to separate fact from fiction and will be surprised to learn that some of the things you’ve been told, even by your teachers, was just plain wrong!Whether you are a trivia maven or just a person who likes to learn new things, you’ll learn something new and find yourself entertained as you discover some of the most fascination criminals, ghost stories, strange habits of historical figures, and just weird things that are a part of our world. So open this book and your mind and see another side of things that you may not know existed. Read more

From the creator of the wildly popular webcomic xkcd, hilarious and informative answers to important questions you probably never thought to ask.Millions of people visit xkcd.com each week to read Randall Munroe’s iconic webcomic. His stick-figure drawings about science, technology, language, and love have a large and passionate following.Fans of xkcd ask Munroe a lot of strange questions. What if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90 percent the speed of light? How fast can you hit a speed bump while driving and live? If there was a robot apocalypse, how long would humanity last?In pursuit of answers, Munroe runs computer simulations, pores over stacks of declassified military research memos, solves differential equations, and consults with nuclear reactor operators. His responses are masterpieces of clarity and hilarity, complemented by signature xkcd comics. They often predict the complete annihilation of humankind, or at least a really big explosion.The book features new and never-before-answered questions, along with updated and expanded versions of the most popular answers from the xkcd website. What If? will be required reading for xkcd fans and anyone who loves to ponder the hypothetical. Read more

#1 New York Times Bestseller! Get thousands of facts at your fingertips with this essential resource: sports, pop culture, science and technology, U.S. history and government, world geography, business, and so much more.The World Almanac® is America’s bestselling reference book of all time, with more than 83 million copies sold. For more than 150 years, this compendium of information has been the authoritative source for school, library, business, and home. The 2024 edition of The World Almanac reviews the biggest events of 2023 and will be your go-to source for questions on any topic in the upcoming year. Praised as a “treasure trove of political, economic, scientific and educational statistics and information” by The Wall Street Journal, The World Almanac and Book of Facts will answer all of your trivia needs effortlessly.Features include:Special Feature: Election 2024: A new feature covers all voters need to know going into the 2024 presidential election season, including primary and caucus dates, candidate profiles, campaign finance numbers, and more. 2023—Top 10 News Topics: The editors of The World Almanac list the top stories that held the world's attention in 2023, from wildfires and earthquakes to Israel, Ukraine, and the U.S. Congress. 2023—Year in Sports: Hundreds of pages of trivia and statistics that are essential for any sports fan, featuring complete coverage of the 2022 FIFA Men's World Cup, 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup, and 2023 World Series. 2023—Year in Pictures: Striking full-color images from around the world in 2023, covering news, entertainment, science, and sports. 2023—Offbeat News Stories: The World Almanac editors found some of the strangest news stories of the year. World Almanac Editors' Picks: Time Capsule: The World Almanac lists the items that most came to symbolize the year 2023, including a Swiftie-created friendship bracelet and the House Speaker's gavel. The World at a Glance: This annual feature of The World Almanac provides a quick look at the surprising stats and curious facts that define the changing world. Other Highlights: Stats and graphics across dozens of chapters show how the pandemic continues to affect the economy, work, family life, education, and culture. Plus more new data to help understand the world, including housing costs, public schools and test scores, streaming TV and movie ratings, and much more.   Read more

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!An NPR Best Book of 2022"The questions throughout What If? 2 are equal parts brilliant, gross, and wonderfully absurd and the answers are thorough, deeply researched, and great fun. . . . Science isn’t easy, but in Munroe’s capable hands, it surely can be fun." —TIMEThe #1 New York Times bestselling author of What If? and How To answers more of the weirdest questions you never thought to ask  The millions of people around the world who read and loved What If? still have questions, and those questions are getting stranger. Thank goodness xkcd creator Randall Munroe is here to help. Planning to ride a fire pole from the Moon back to Earth? The hardest part is sticking the landing. Hoping to cool the atmosphere by opening everyone’s freezer door at the same time? Maybe it’s time for a brief introduction to thermodynamics. Want to know what would happen if you rode a helicopter blade, built a billion-story building, made a lava lamp out of lava, or jumped on a geyser as it erupted? Okay, if you insist.Before you go on a cosmic road trip, feed the residents of New York City to a T. rex, or fill every church with bananas, be sure to consult this practical guide for impractical ideas. Unfazed by absurdity, Munroe consults the latest research on everything from swing-set physics to airliner catapult–design to answer his readers’ questions, clearly and concisely, with illuminating and occasionally terrifying illustrations. As he consistently demonstrates, you can learn a lot from examining how the world might work in very specific extreme circumstances. Read more

The ultimate collection of unusual & secret knowledge for every curious Harry Potter fan!The many mysteries and wonders of the most famous wizard are mostly kept secret – until now.In this book, Harry Potter fans learn the most astonishing facts about the world of wizards and witches. Funny, bizarre, or simply stunning – even the biggest fan will learn something new.The No. 1 Bestseller in GermanyWhether for yourself or as a present for a friend, every Harry Potter fan would love to know more about the magical world and its residents – background information and everything there is to know about Hogwarts, Harry, and his world.Did You Know?Daniel Radcliffe was in the bath when he got the call about getting the role of Harry Potter.Malfoy actor Tom Felton had such a bad sweet tooth that his cloak’s pocket had to be sewn shut.J. K. Rowling had to change her name to publish the book. Accio, Facts!Nearly 400 outstanding facts about the wizarding world make this book a must-have for every Potterhead. It will make you laugh, shake your head in disbelief, or simply leave you stunned and amazed.Highlights:There are over 400 facts about the world of magic.Even the biggest Potter Fans did not know about these facts and trivia.Funny, bizarre, and amazing – these facts are surprising.The secret collection of unusual knowledge for every curious Potterhead.Order Now and Be Enchanted! Read more

Cross-train your brain. All it takes is ten to fifteen minutes a day of playing the right games. (It’s fun.) Exercising your brain is like exercising your body—with the right program, you can keep your brain young, strong, agile, and adaptable. Organized on an increasing scale of difficulty from “Warm-up” to “Merciless,” here are 399 puzzles, trivia quizzes, brainteasers, and word game that are both fun and engaging to play, and are expertly designed to give your brain the kind of workout that stimulates neurogenesis, the process of rejuvenating the brain by growing new brain cells. Target Six Key Cognitive Functions: 1. Long-Term Memory. 2. Working Memory. 3. Executive Functioning. 4. Attention to Detail. 5. Multitasking. 6. Processing Speed.   Read more

Are you ready to get out of your chair, challenge your mind, and have some fun in the process? If so, then open up the pages of I Remember That! - Captivating Stories, Interesting Facts and Fun Trivia for Seniors, and embark on this epic trivia challenge that was written specifically for your generation.You’ll take an engaging stroll down memory lane to test just how much you remember from the biggest moments in history, pop culture, and science from the first four decades after World War II.But if you’re not a senior, don’t worry, you’ll also have fun playing along.There’s really no right or wrong way to read I Remember That!, but just remember to have fun!In this book you will find out the answers to some of these questions:How did the internet go from a military project to the universities in the 1980s?When did Elvis Presley perform on the Ed Sullivan Show?What ever happened to 8-track tapes?Who was Lewis Urry and what did he have to do with flashlights and portable radios?How and when did the Berlin Wall go up?I Remember That! is divided into four chapters for each decade, with each chapter divided into subsections of history, pop culture, and science.At the end of each subsection is a ten-question quiz that you can play with your friends and family. There is also a “Did You Know?” page at the end of each subsection that adds a few more interesting tidbits to the subject.So, what are you waiting for? Open the book up and see what you remember about the world you grew up in!This book is printed in large print so it's easy to read. Read more

AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “How To will make you laugh as you learn…With How To, you can't help but appreciate the glorious complexity of our universe and the amazing breadth of humanity's effort to comprehend it. If you want some lightweight edification, you won't go wrong with How To.” —CNET “[How To] has science and jokes in it, so 10/10 can recommend.” —Simone Giertz The world's most entertaining and useless self-help guide from the brilliant mind behind the wildly popular webcomic xkcd, the bestsellers What If? and Thing Explainer, and What If? 2, coming September 13, 2022For any task you might want to do, there's a right way, a wrong way, and a way so monumentally complex, excessive, and inadvisable that no one would ever try it. How To is a guide to the third kind of approach. It's full of highly impractical advice for everything from landing a plane to digging a hole. Bestselling author and cartoonist Randall Munroe explains how to predict the weather by analyzing the pixels of your Facebook photos. He teaches you how to tell if you're a baby boomer or a 90's kid by measuring the radioactivity of your teeth. He offers tips for taking a selfie with a telescope, crossing a river by boiling it, and powering your house by destroying the fabric of space-time. And if you want to get rid of the book once you're done with it, he walks you through your options for proper disposal, including dissolving it in the ocean, converting it to a vapor, using tectonic plates to subduct it into the Earth's mantle, or launching it into the Sun. By exploring the most complicated ways to do simple tasks, Munroe doesn't just make things difficult for himself and his readers. As he did so brilliantly in What If?, Munroe invites us to explore the most absurd reaches of the possible. Full of clever infographics and fun illustrations, How To is a delightfully mind-bending way to better understand the science and technology underlying the things we do every day. Read more

Want to impress your friends and family with both useful, worthless but undeniably interesting facts?Then Interesting Facts For Curious Minds: 1572 Random But Mind Blowing Facts About History, Science, Pop Culture and Everything in Between is the book for you!In this book you’ll find the answers to questions such as:When did zero become a number?Who was the inventor of Bitcoin?What did the Big Bang sound like?How have sports changed around the world?What’s a malapropism?Interesting Facts For Curious Minds gives you the answer to all these and many, many more questions that I know have crossed your mind from time to time. This book is divided into 63 chapters by topic for your convenience, bringing you a nice mix of science, history, pop culture, and all sorts of stuff in between. Each chapter contains 25 concise yet engaging factoids that are sure to make you think and at times laugh.How you read this book is entirely up to you. I’m sure most of you will read it cover to cover at some point, but when you’re with friends and family you can pick the chapters out that most appeal to all of you.However you read this book, I guarantee you’ll find it one of the best tools to pass some time, relax alone, or connect with others. So sit back, relax, and get ready to learn some truly interesting facts! Read more

Never forget our nation's heroes and discover the events, weapons, battles, and people that have shaped the battlefield―and the world! Based on the yearly bestseller and #1 history calendar!From one of the most relied-upon and best-respected sources of historical material, HISTORY™, comes a day-by-day record of extraordinary military events that made their mark on U.S. and world history. Packed full of legendary battles, historic military operations, courageous soldiers, and groundbreaking innovations, this inspiring 2024 military history boxed calendar chronicles 365 days of interesting facts from ancient history to the American Revolution and the present.Learn new fascinating facts every day and share with military history lovers, veterans, and trivia fans alike with this on this day calendar of events! This is the ideal desk or office gift for men and women, bosses, teachers, and the history buff in your life, perfect to give as a holiday stocking stuffer, or as a fun Father's Day or birthday gift!Additional details:4.25" x 4.5" page trim size with protective 5" x 5" outer box100% recyclable and plastic-free with no shrink-wrapping! Cardboard easel backing is perfect for sturdy display on tabletop or deskEnvironmentally responsible, FSC certified paperDaily calendar with easy, tear-off pages featuring 365 days of inspiring military leaders and significant world momentsHolidays and observances Read more

Does potty humor make you flush with laughter? This silly book full of fascinating trivia and giggles is the perfect bathroom companion.Want to know why people panic-buy toilet paper? Would grimy glimpses into medieval bathrooms pique your interest? Can you guess when the first flushing toilet was invented? Alex Smart continues to create endless hours of light-hearted and clean enjoyment for those who love to make time fly with gut-busting jokes. Now they are here to share their bestselling, top-charting collection that will always brighten your day.Learn A Lot While You Sit On The Pot is a family-friendly volume packed with amusing anecdotes, surprising facts, and big splashes of fun. Including science stories, British slang, and other thrilling tidbits, Smart deftly offers a unique gag or holiday gift for teens and adults. And if discovering famous plumbers and gross body details sounds delightful, waiting for things to happen in the loo will bring you joy.In Learn A Lot While You Sit On The Pot, you’ll discover:A wonderful present for any husband, brother, son, or co-workerPlayful entertainment that will fill you up with useless knowledge that promises to delight everyone you meet.Where the world’s oldest working toilet is locatedA Wind Scale of Farts that will make you fall over your bumExtreme excrement, bathroom quizzes, and much, much more!Learn A Lot While You Sit On The Pot is a must-have solution to gift-giving. If you like goofy giddiness, proper poop puns, and mind-bending material, then you’ll adore Alex Smart's boisterous boredom buster.★ Buy this as a gag gift for a teenage boy, as a present for your 'hard to buy for' brother or to raise a laugh from your husband!★Other books in this series can be found by clicking on the author name above 'Alex Smart' Read more

If you're a fan of JEOPARDY!® America's Favorite Quiz Show®, you're going to want this fun and entertaining desktop calendar for your home or office.Each daily page of the JEOPARDY!®2024 Calendar has an answer you must respond to with a question—just like on the iconic game show this calendar has JEOPARDY! and DOUBLE JEOPARDY! clues with assigned dollar amounts and a FINAL JEOPARDY! round where you can wager all or part of your “winnings.” The clue is printed on the front of each page and the correct answer is printed on the back.   Features include:4.5" x 4.5" page sizePrinted on FSC certified paper with soy-based inkTear-off pagesAnswers are printed on the backDay/Date reference on each pageOfficial major U.S. and Canada holidays and observancesIncludes a new JEOPARDY!® question each day Read more

This gargantuan, 704-page hardcover book is chock-full of that information and more, covering pop culture, nature, technology, food, sports, art, history, religion, crime, and tales of the just plain weird. Prepared to get lost perusing page after page of unusual facts, enthralling stories, and amusing anecdotes because The Book of Extraordinary Facts will keep you busy for hours! Learn about the strange collaboration between surrealist painter Salvador Dalí and comedy icon Harpo Marx.Read about what it was like to live during the London Blitz, and debunk popular urban legends.Get lassoed into facts about fascinating wedding customs around the world, and discover the reason behind one of the deadliest fires in American history.What Hollywood star used her twin sister as her body double in a film?How do card sharks mark a deck?Where in California can you find the world s oldest living tree?Which U.S. president spent some pre-politics time as a male model?  Read more

Do you want to be entertained by strange, unique and interesting true stories?Or maybe just have a laugh?The World's Best Short Stories is a compendium of crazy and oddly funny stories from different periods across human history. You’ll learn about pompous politicians, admirable animals, and some very strange oddballs!The book provides the reader with an easily accessible entrance into some of the most important aspects of human history. The stories are packed with humor and jokes to offer up even the grumpiest of readers a wry smile.The stories carefully selected for the book are typically areas that the average reader won’t have heard of before. Though many of them are set in familiar periods of history which helps the readers build from their own base of knowledge.In this book you will find:127 exciting stories from different periods and locations across history.Boiled-down information from the words of a historian to help plug holes in your knowledge.Strange accounts, showing an underside of humanity that isn’t discussed in more traditional academic circles.A little extra touch of wit and humor, to keep you entertained along the way.This book is supposed to help people access new information in a way that isn’t overwhelming or complicated but is instead funny and simple.The book has some mature themes, though it remains suitable for young teenagers and older, as long as whoever reads the book is just immature enough to be able to laugh at the sillier side of life and history.If you’re looking for the perfect gift item or just a casual read or light-hearted page-turner, then The World's Best Short Stories is the book for you. Read more

How much do you know about farts?Did you know it would take just nine farts from every person on earth to power an atomic bomb? That fish farts nearly triggered a war against Russia? That women's farts smell worse than men's? Pfwoort! It's all in this book.Did you know that inhaling farts is healthy, yet people fart after death? That you can get a job as a professional fart smeller? That farting is illegal in Africa but polite in South America? Heard any ancient Babylonian fart jokes lately? Blorrrk! It's all in this book.Do you know the fartiest animal on earth? The fartiest food? Know how many farts you inhale on a cross-country flight? Can farts power astronauts through space? Fweeeet! It's all in this book.Do you secretly think farts are not only funny, but fascinating? Then you should read this gas-powered, illustrated encyclopedia about the windy and wacky science, history, and art of musical gas! Makes a perfect gag gift or bathroom read.Please note that this is the American-spelling edition. Read more

GREAT GIFT under $20.00. From an original 33,000 clue & answer database."1972-83 Korean War TV series - MASH""America's Cold War foe, until 1991 - USSR""Heidi Doody & Howdy Doody - DOLLS""Ferrari "P.I." - MAGNUM""Missing Jimmy, of The Teamsters - HOFFA""5.84% Inflation, for U.S. in 1970 - RATE""Leave It To....who? 1957-63 - BEAVER""I Dream Of "Jeanie" 1965-70 - GENIE""Coke Classic, AKA vs 1985's New Coke - OLD" And so many more from decades past!100% Baby Boomer related Clues and WordsFeatures:Decorated Interior6" X 9" - Convenient Portable SizeOriginal Artist Cover & Interior DesignHigh Resolution Matte cover (300dpi)High quality paper stock. Thick front and back pagesProfessional binding to ensure spine strength Read more

The Book of Incredible Information is a collection of hundreds of articles, lists, quotes, and anecdotes. A lively range of subjects and events, from the backwater debacles of history to infamous innovations, vocations, and personalities. Topics include extraordinary explorers, oddball professions, game-changing inventions, unprofessional sports, arts and treasures, unforgettable edibles, and even a few ghost stories. Thick book - hardcover, 704 pages. Makes a great coffee table book of bathroom reader! Read more