Totally Random Facts Volume 2: 3,219 Surprising, Strange, and Striking Things About the World

by Melina Gerosa Bellows

DID YOU KNOW? Male seahorses give birth, not females. Hershey's kisses used to be square. Squid have nine brains--and the central one's shaped like a donut, with a hole in the middle!

Even MORE fantastic facts and incredible images come to life in the second volume of the kid-favorite TOTALLY RANDOM FACTS series.

There is a wild world of VERY random information out there! This second volume of the beloved Totally Random Facts series rounds up another 3000-plus of those surprising, strange, and striking nuggets of information. Covering everything from cuddly pets to venomous spiders and exoplanets to undersea trenches, this uber-giftable hardcover showcases amazing photography, cool design, and weird-but-true information. If your trivia-phile is interested in it, there's a Totally Random Fact about it!

224 pages, Hardcover

Published July 4, 2023

Reviews

[Read Ribbet · Rating 4 out of 5]

After 8 smaller volumes of Totally Random Facts, this is the second volume of an oversized coffee table book of totally random facts (3219 to be exact). Organized around Awesome Animals, Planet Earth, Happening History, Splendid Sports, Super Science and Terrific Tech, Into the Ocean, The Amazing Human Body, Steller Space and Random Roundup. Each of those sections is further subdivided with some categories of related facts. Each section contains many photographs to support the text. It is the kind of book that readers of all ages will find engaging. It can be jigsawed by sections and read to students at multiple levels. It is a great resource for any classroom or home library.