Free Downloads Now I Know More: The Revealing Stories Behind Even More Of The World's Most Interesting Facts
Dan Lewis, creator of the Webby Award-winning Now I Know newsletter, is back with 101 unbelievable-but-true stories to blow your mind. Get ready to find out the real deal behind a new collection of fascinating facts. From pink camouflaged fighter planes to secret Harry Potter characters, Now I Know More covers everything from history and science to sports and pop culture. You'll learn about made-up towns that made their way onto real maps, the time three MLB teams squared off in a single game, and 99 more curious cases of remarkable trivia. And it's all true. With this audiobook, you really will know more!
Audible Audio Edition
Listening Length: 7 hours and 19 minutes
Program Type: Audiobook
Version: Unabridged
Publisher: Audible Studios
Audible.com Release Date: November 1, 2014
Whispersync for Voice: Ready
Language: English
ASIN: B00P2QBE2K
Best Sellers Rank: #46 in Books > Reference > Encyclopedias & Subject Guides > History #53 in Books > History > Historical Study & Educational Resources > Reference #96 in Books > Humor & Entertainment > Puzzles & Games > Trivia
If you can tell that someone is using a technique, then they're doing it wrong. This axiom probably explains Dan Lewis's brilliance; he clearly spends the time to edit and make his work flow, but it's done so well you don't even notice how easily one story flows into another, and you find yourself turning more pages than you meant to.Great book, easy read, like the first, except different. Definitely worth a purchase.
This book is filled with a lot of fun facts and a nice bit of detail beyond each of those facts. This helps makes those facts stand out a bit more in your mind. It is also nice that the Lewis tried to keep it where each fact related to the next one in some way. While, I will not read the book again. I did get it on audio book and plan to listen to it during my drive to and from work. I would highly recommend this book for anyone who likes to learn random trivia.
TRUE STORY: IF YOU GLOW BLUE, YOU SURVIVESeriously, did you know that wounded Civil War soldiers lying in the battlefield who had an eerie blue glow stood a better chance of survival?I should make you buy the book to find the explanation, but I won't.You SHOULD buy the book because there's an interesting (short) story with every turn of the page.And those soldiers? The blue glow came from a bioluminescent microbe that produced toxins which held off infection of the soldiers' wounds.
The only bad thing about this book is knowing that it will eventually end! If you're a subscriber to the daily "Now I Know" emails, then you'll enjoy this book. If not, then imagine little tidbits of history, science, etc., all wrapped up nicely in several paragraphs that take a minute or two to read! That's what this book consists of and that's what the emails are.If nothing else, become a a subscriber to the emails (nowiknow.com) and trust me you'll want more than just column a day!
Love the book. His second. He also does a daily email posting, and I get them, too.Kind of a modern Paul Harvey, Rest of the Story type of read. Each item (or story) runs a couple of pages, so you don't need a lot of time-unless you get hooked and can't put it down...
I bought the book because I needed a quick read. It is indeed an easy read and fail interesting but i didn't tell me anything I didn't already know from other reading and more detailed evaluations. A good read if one is looking for escape.
The best 'bathroom book' I have ever had. Extremely easy to read yet authoritative articles. Dan Lewis at his best. Well worth the money.
This book contains 101 stories (one more than its prequel) outlining a great variety of facts. As before, the topics vary tremendously: from history and geography to politics to science and health. Each story is on average about two and a half pages long - just a nice length to sufficiently get into the subject without short-changing the reader or belaboring the topic. At the end of each story is a “bonus fact” that is a spinoff fact varyingly related to the main fact just discussed. The stories can be read in any particular order since they are not interdependent, although a given story tries to follow part of the theme of the preceding one.I found this book very difficult to put down. The writing style is friendly, lively, often witty, accessible and immensely captivating. I believe that this book can be enjoyed by absolutely anyone, particularly trivia enthusiasts.
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