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Ever wondered if you could beat a T. Rex in an arm-wrestling match? Why men get hit by lightning more often than women? Or whether you could get rich selling your organs on the black market? This book from top-ranked Popular Science magazine answers these crazy questions (and hundreds more) with surprisingly detailed and fascinating information from leading physicists, biologists, and other scientists. If your thirst for knowledge (or for fun cocktail-party facts) tends to be bizarre, this book is absolutely indispensable.

"As someone who makes up facts for a living, I rely heavily on actual information—especially the provocative, gasp-inducing, brain-firing, hardly credible sort contained herein—to keep the furnace of falsehood alight. This book, then, could not have come at a better time. I am throwing it into the fire as we speak!"—John Hodgman, Resident Expert on The Daily Show and author of That Is All

"Pages kept grabbing my attention and forcing me to stop and learn more about something I didn't even know I was interested in."—Theodore Gray, author of The Elements and Mad Science