Cats Are Capable of Mind Control: And 1,000+ UberFacts You Never Knew You Needed to Know

by Kris Sanchez

From the creator of the popular Twitter sensation UberFacts comes this fun compilation quiz book, packed with entertaining infographics and surprising factoids, for fans of Schott’s Miscellany, What If? and Ripley’s Believe It or Not.

Providing "the most unimportant things you’ll never need to know”—fun and surprising facts, statistics, and infographics on diverse subjects, from art and science to history and popular culture—UberFacts has become one of the most widely followed and successful accounts on Twitter, followed by nearly 12 million people.

Based on the popular social media phenomenon and culled from an exhaustive variety of sources—science journals, books, media, and literary magazines—Cats are Capable of Mind Control is a fascinating collection of shocking, delightful, educational, and informative facts and figures that are entertaining, topical, and sometimes downright bizarre (the safest place to suffer sudden cardiac arrest in the U.S. is a casino).

Did you

The Pentagon was constructed so that no point in the building is more than a ten-minute walk from any other point?Vultures’ stomach acid is so corrosive they can digest anthrax?Farmers in India use Coca-Cola and Pepsi as cheap and effective pesticides?Discover all this and much, much more in this treasure trove of trivia for the social media age.

Genres: Nonfiction, Trivia, Humor, Self Help, Reference, Cats, Animals

272 pages, Kindle Edition

First published July 5, 2016

Reviews

[J · Rating 2 out of 5]

I have always been fans of trivia no matter the category although sports I tend to veer away from as much. But with one that uses cats in the title it definitely does catch the eye a lot better than some of the other titles that I have seen.

The book was a great collection of trivia and one that was wonderfully organized. As such the majority of trivia was categorized with similar other types such as medicine, food, etc. The last category that combined animals ad objects seemed a bit lazy to me though.

The other thing that bothered me is that the author chose to compile an interesting list of factlets. Instead of confirming that all of them were fact he threw them all together. As such some of the facts are a little fishy or unproven.

All in all it is a quick one and a good start. Redundant as many fact books are this one tests the reader at the end of each chapter with a few multiple answer questions taken from the chapter so it can be used for a good trivia game if you get some friends together.

[MKF · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book has many newer facts but still has other facts that are recycled and others that are common knowledge.

[Alaska · Rating 3 out of 5]

You don't read this book as you mainly look at the pictures. Nevertheless it is a rather entertaining trivia book. It covers many different topics complete with a quiz after each chapter.

[Maria · Rating 1 out of 5]

Ridiculously stupid.

[Jan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Thoroughly enjoyable! Wonderful tidbits of information.

[Marie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Need a new bathroom read, now. Don't know how accurate these facts are, but they are entertaining.

[Pam · Rating 4 out of 5]

Trivia facts, many of them funny.

[Keira Liu · Rating 1 out of 5]

Just fine

[Mary · Rating 5 out of 5]

Read more than once to remember all of the facts!

[Elexndra · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great facts
Library borrow

[James Piss · Rating 3 out of 5]

geh., non the wizer, now mre than eve.r . he doesn t ssupect a thing

[Martina · Rating 4 out of 5]

The book is divided into topic areas, with amazing 'true facts' (often weird as well) found under each section. My first surprise was getting to the end of the first section and finding a multiple choice quiz related to the facts I'd just read! hahaha I missed two, but now forearmed, I haven't missed a single one and am about half way through the book. It's a wondrous pick up/put down book, with other reading in between, hence the length of time to finish the book. I can't imagine how much time and energy went in to finding these quirky bits of knowledge! And yes, I believe that cats are capable of MIND CONTROL! If you ever owned a cat, you know I'm right!

[Melva · Rating 5 out of 5]

What fun - lots of little known facts presented in an interesting way

[Madonna · Rating 4 out of 5]

I enjoyed reading the trivia in "Cats Are Capable of Mind Control: etc." However, I was disappointed that it was not more about cats. Trivia is fun, but I really expected this book to have funny stuff about cats.

[Chris · Rating 3 out of 5]

So many interesting facts to read!

[Beverly Williams gedvillas · Rating 3 out of 5]

Left me wanting more info

I is a quick read but I had wishes there were links to the information so I could learn more.

[Cindy Illsley · Rating 4 out of 5]

Funny & very entertaining.

[Mary · Rating 5 out of 5]

Amazing

I Definitely learned a lot of facts I never knew. Some were quite funny and others quite disgusting. While others were truly amazing.