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Myth Information: More Than 590 Popular Misconceptions, Fallacies, and Misbeliefs Explained!
It's common knowledge that Eve gave Adam an apple. Everyone knows that George Washington was the First president of the United States. And when your mother told you not to go swimming right after you ate, you took it as a matter of life and death. But you've been myth-informed -- by legend, by history... even by your mother! The truth is ...
-- Milk chocolate may actually help prevent tooth decay!
-- If you "eat like a bird," you may eat up to one-half your body weight every single day!
-- The largest city in America is not New York or Los Angeles -- it's Jacksonville, Florida!
Now you can face the facts -- on everything from aphrodisiacs to zip codes -- in this alphabetically arranged collection of more than 590 fabulous fallacies and memorable misconceptions. You won't know what you're missing until mastered Myth Information.
-- Milk chocolate may actually help prevent tooth decay!
-- If you "eat like a bird," you may eat up to one-half your body weight every single day!
-- The largest city in America is not New York or Los Angeles -- it's Jacksonville, Florida!
Now you can face the facts -- on everything from aphrodisiacs to zip codes -- in this alphabetically arranged collection of more than 590 fabulous fallacies and memorable misconceptions. You won't know what you're missing until mastered Myth Information.
- GenresNonfiction
288 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1989
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May 10, 2011
I have a rather serious trivia addiction. I love collecting small facts and having a thorough knowledge of a handful of terrifyingly specific subjects. So I tend to collect books like this one the way blades of grass collect dew on Spring mornings. It just happens.
This one is alright. It's in encyclopedia-format and contains a few things I already knew and a couple that I didn't. enough to keep me engaded for a few minutes at a time whilst filpping through randomnly.
the best part about this book is that it is over 22 years old, so some of the corrected fallacies contained herein have been, in the generation that has past between it's publication and today, themselves disproven. It's fun (for me, anyway) to cross-reference between the trivia in this book and the same trivia as laid-out in more recent collections just to see how far human knowledge has progressed in the since 1989, even in the very broad and mostly-useless field of minutae.
Recommended, if you're into that sort of thing.
This one is alright. It's in encyclopedia-format and contains a few things I already knew and a couple that I didn't. enough to keep me engaded for a few minutes at a time whilst filpping through randomnly.
the best part about this book is that it is over 22 years old, so some of the corrected fallacies contained herein have been, in the generation that has past between it's publication and today, themselves disproven. It's fun (for me, anyway) to cross-reference between the trivia in this book and the same trivia as laid-out in more recent collections just to see how far human knowledge has progressed in the since 1989, even in the very broad and mostly-useless field of minutae.
Recommended, if you're into that sort of thing.
November 14, 2012
This is a great little trivia book. In a way, it is more than trivia; some of our U.S. history is based on bad information. This can set the record straight in many instances. It is probably meant to be read in little pieces or used as a reference. I read it straight through and thoroughly enjoyed every bit of it.
December 19, 2008
Neat little book. It taught me that bananas are actually the biggest berry. Who knew?
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