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Improbably True: 250 Weird Facts, Properly Explained
Paperback
Series: Improbably True, Book 1
Dictionaries & EncyclopediasGeneral ReferenceHistory & Philosophy of Science
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 29 2026
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.74
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Hot water that freezes faster than cold. A patch of India inside Bangladesh inside India inside Bangladesh. A jellyfish that grows young again. Sharks that are older than trees.
Most weird facts books give you a thousand one-liners and leave you wondering which of them are actually true. Improbably True does the opposite: 250 of the strangest facts in science, history, maths and geography, each with a full page of explanation and an honest verdict stamp (TRUE, TRUE-ISH, CONTESTED or BUSTED), so you know exactly how far to trust it.
- Ten departments: physics, chemistry, the body and brain, life and evolution, Earth, space, numbers, history, language and the mind, and world records
- Popular myths busted, not repeated
- Every fact checked against solid sources, printed on the page
- Each fact linked to the school syllabus topic it explains, with a Syllabus Finder at the back
- Plenty of India: C. V. Raman's sea voyage, the Delhi iron pillar, Kerala's forgotten calculus, the purple frog and more
Part fun read, part reference book, for curious minds aged 16 and up. Volume 1 of a continuing series.
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