1000 Shocking Facts You Might Not Have Known

by John Brown

As the title suggests, 1000 Shocking Facts You Might Not Have Known, contains a huge list of interesting and unbelievable facts about the world that we live in. The facts range from strange historical events to breakthrough scientific discoveries. The book is also a continuation of my previous works, 1000 Things You Might Not Have Known and 1000 More Things You Might Now Have Known.1000 Shocking Facts You Might Not Have Known is packed with interesting, entertaining, educational and fun things to read. You'll get everything from the weird to the wonderful and from the horrible to the hilarious. Facts such Starbucks spends more money on health insurance for its employees than on coffee beans.Walt Disney lost the ability to speak and used pen and paper to communicate before passing away. The last words he wrote on pen and paper was the famous actor "Kurt Russell".

225 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 3, 2015

About the author

Librarian Note: There is more than one author by this name in the Goodreads database.

This is John Brown, author of trivia books.

Reviews

[Mike Zmuda · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another good trivia book

Another good trivia book by John Brown, though most facts are anecdotal (from Wikipedia) and the text could use a better proofreader. Overall, fun and entertaining.

[Mohammed Hossain · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good but...

Its good but it confused me when some of the words in the facts got cut off and when the fact got cut off.

[Ricky Maxwell]

Inaccurate information.

The book states that the longest sniper kill was 2,745 miles.. which took 5 seconds. This means a bullet would need to travel nearly 550 mi/s or just shy of 2,000,000 mi/h. This along with many other incorrect or miss typed entries makes this book garbage. Did the author not even attempt to proofread or edit their own book?!?!?

[Jeremy Hunsinger · Rating 4 out of 5]

Learned a few things....

1000 not so useful chunks of knowledge some more entertaining than others, but worth the read all in all. A bit funny

[Amanda · Rating 4 out of 5]

It has references

Unlike other fact books I have read this book has individual references for each and every fact listed. It was a pleasure to read.

[Hayden Lai · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very interesting book overall, but there are some confusing facts

[Sherrie Henry · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good bedtime reading, great to end the day. No cliffhangers to make you want to keep reading way past your bedtime, just trivial facts to help you win at Trivial Pursuit.

Mr. Brown is getting better with the typos and grammar, but still, his overuse of commas is very distracting.

[jacky platt · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesting facts. Some made me laugh. Mostly smiled over spelling and grammatical mistakes though.

I liked the book, there were some very interesting facts that I had no idea about. I wouldn't say many were 'shocking' though.

[ronald l covey · Rating 2 out of 5]

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Misspelled words , sentences that don't make any sense. Very hard to read.
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