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weird-o-pedia

The ultimate book of surprising, strange and incredibly bizarre facts about (supposedly) ordinary things

Check out the weird and wonderful facts in this massive encyclopedia of alphabetized oddities:

Humans are the only animals that enjoy spicy food (there’s a reason no one sells Tabasco-flavored cat food).

Napping can save you from a heart attack (assuming you are not operating heavy machinery at the time)

Psychologists can assess your personality from how you dip fried in ketchup (nice fries, sociopath).

Surfing the Internet makes you smarter (but not as smart as reading this book will).

Now the next time someone tells you smugly that Pluto isn’t a planet, you can counter with any one of these hundreds of weird facts and remain king or queen of the cocktail (or kegger) chatter.


Press

Book Review, Seattle Post-Intelligencer

August 2, 2012 show (final 10 minutes), The Dave Glover Show on 97.1 FM

August 4, 2012 show (at the beginning), Now It’s the News with Derrick Blair

August 2, 2012 show (final 15 minutes), The Bobby D Show

“Paging the Future: Focus on Reference” (PDF), Publishers Weekly