All the Sh*t You Should Have Learned: A Digestible Re-Education in Science, Math, Language, History...and All the Other Important Crap

by Paul Kleinman

If you’ve forgotten a thing or two since school, now you can go from knowing jack sh*t to knowing your sh*t in no time! This highly entertaining, useful and fun trivia book fills the gaps, offering hundreds of bite-sized facts about history, grammar, math, and more!

Get ready to relearn all the crap you were taught in school and then promptly forgot. Who can keep all that information in their head anyway? Now you can!

With All the Sh*t You Should Have Learned, you’ll be schooled in history, language arts, math, science, and foreign language—all the stuff you were taught at one point but now regret not remembering. From translating Roman numerals to remembering the difference between further and farther, we’ve got you covered. You’ll brush up on the Crusades, revisit the structure of the Victorian novel, get a refresher on Chaos Theory, and much more! Maybe this time you’ll remember.

Genres: Education

320 pages, Paperback

Published December 24, 2019

About the author

Paul Kleinman grew up in White Plains, New York, and currently resides in New York City. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 2009 with degrees in Art and Communication Arts: Radio, Television and Film. Out of fear that his author bio is painfully boring, he began making things up. He is an astronaut. He trains cobras. He is very tall and in no way sickly pale. He is also a humor writer. That one is true. Maybe.

Reviews

[MKF · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not sure how the subjects were chosen but I wouldn't consider many of the topics as important or must know facts. It is also hard to take this book as a serious fact book since some of the information is actually incorrect.

[Douglas Reedy · Rating 3 out of 5]

Many facts.

I have found this book to be both informative and entertaining. It gets a little dry when discussing subjects the reader is not interested in. But still worth a read.

[Christine · Rating 1 out of 5]

DNF A strange, uninteresting, “tell instead of show” collection of random information. I typically like trivia-knowledge type books, but I found this boring to read and whenever I put it down, nothing I read stuck with me.

[Claudia · Rating 1 out of 5]

If I could give it a zero star rating I would but sadly cannot. This book is very very bias for a book that should be about facts. The bias is very strong in the Isnotreal/Palestine section where he does his best to paint hamas as a bad guy, but leaves out all the facts of Isnotreal tormenting Palestinians for decades. When you deprive someone of basic human rights they tend to be upset and attack back. Hamas's attacks are no where near as brutal as the IDF attacks on literal children. Overall the book was boring, it felt like for each section a summary was pulled off Wikipedia and thrown into a book.

[Rachelle · Rating 5 out of 5]

All the Sh*t You Should Have Learned... the ultimate quick reference trivia contest study guide! History, Language, Math, Science, and Foreign Language are topics brushed on. Content is easily digestible and breaks down the essence of knowledge within each definition. Don't go into this thinking you'll have an in-depth understanding of every topic learned by students, but know you'll briefly review various specialties in a dictionary type format.

[Kevin Demel · Rating 2 out of 5]

I didn't read this entire book but scanned most of it. It's interesting because a lot of this I remember learning in school but have forgotten about. I think this is a good book for finding subjects that may be of more interest now than they were back then. I was particulary interested in the literature section.