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Amusing But True Facts You Wish You Had Always Known: : Carefully picked health trivia you won't find elsewhere
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ISBN13: 9798186792611
Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 180
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.38 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 180
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.38 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
NOTE: You will become 10X more empathetic and 100X more likable by the time you're halfway through this book.
Want to get everyone laughing with facts like Hey, did you know that after George Boole came down with pneumonia after walking through a freezing downpour, his wife drenched him with buckets of freezing water while he lay in bed because she believed that an illness could only be cured by exposing the patient to the exact element that originally triggered it? Over 150 pages of crisp factoids, mind-blowing psychology, hilarious bits from the history of human health, weird scientists, big-hearted discoverers, impactful celebrities, and cutting-edge biotechnology that you will find nowhere else.
Want to get everyone laughing with facts like Hey, did you know that after George Boole came down with pneumonia after walking through a freezing downpour, his wife drenched him with buckets of freezing water while he lay in bed because she believed that an illness could only be cured by exposing the patient to the exact element that originally triggered it? Over 150 pages of crisp factoids, mind-blowing psychology, hilarious bits from the history of human health, weird scientists, big-hearted discoverers, impactful celebrities, and cutting-edge biotechnology that you will find nowhere else.
It is full of fascinating stories that make you think, laugh or start a conversation. With Amusing But True Facts You Wish You Had Always Known, your trivia binge is not just about learning random new stuff. It is also about the ways in which each fact will change how you see yourself and others, as well as the deep reflections you will embark on: Facts like the one on the Tuskegee experiment, where hundreds of African American men were left to continue to suffer from syphilis just for the sake of research, will have you thinking for a few more seconds before flipping the page.
WHAT YOU WILL FIND INSIDE:
WHAT YOU WILL FIND INSIDE:
- The Human Brain: How learning a new language physically changes the brain, what mondegreens are, etc.
- The Human Body: Why election ink never washes off, how breathing oxygen is the reason we age, etc.
- Scientists and Inventors: How a scientist's quest for immortality led to his early death, how the third atomic bomb killed two people even though it was never dropped, etc.
- History: How a supposed cure-all caused a man's lower jaw to completely fall off, how the patent for insulin was sold for just a dollar, etc.
- Food: How pasteurization leaves a small percentage of microorganisms alive, how we escaped the Malthusian Trap, etc.
- Interesting Psychology: The unexpected difference between the brains of introverts and extraverts, the three levels that a satisfying life exists on, etc.
- Survival and Life in Extreme Conditions: How two men walked over water by stepping on moving ice floes, how living in space causes the heart muscles to shrink, why deep-sea divers replace nitrogen with helium, etc.
- -And so much, much more!
- a gift-giver looking for the best gift for the person who doesn't seem to need anything.
- a curious person wanting to learn new useful things in a fun way.
- a mom or dad looking to understand your kids better.
- someone looking for quality fun as a break from the superficial content on social media.
- someone who likes make people genuinely surprised and impressed by your rare knowledge
- someone who likes to know the why behind even the littlest things.
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