Henry Carter Hull

Collects wacky facts, strange statistics, and weird but true stories, as well as photographs, charts, and illustrations.

Contains alphabetically arranged entries that provide strange-but-true information on a variety of funny, amazing, and sometimes smelly topics.

For ten years, the knowledge seekers at mental_floss have been hunting and trapping the world’s rarest facts, locking them into captivating lists for the world to admire. Thanks to their tireless efforts, Mental Floss: The Book is packed with a decade’s worth of the smartest, quirkiest stories around, including: Five Presidential Fashion Flubs Seven Shameless Abuses of Diplomatic Immunity Five Units of Measurement Weirder Than the Metric System...

An original set of tales about the peculiar and curious in history.

Presents facts, brief stories, photos, and illustrations showing that fact can be as weird as fiction.

"Wonder meets wanderlust in an extraordinary new travel book. Created by the founders of AtlasObscura.com, the vibrant online destination and community with over 3 million visitors a month, Atlas Obscura is the bucket-list guide to over 700 of the most unusual, curious, bizarre, and mysterious places on earth" --

An informative guide to the beginnings of over 500 ordinary things, from the brown paper bag to animal crackers.

Presents a guide to unique and unusual people, places, and things in Connecticut, grouped by region, with contact information when available.