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Learn something new with 366 fascinating facts from NPR librarian Kee Malesky

What was the greatest thing before sliced bread?¹ What color did carrots used to be?² Why do many American spellings differ from their British counterparts?³ What does it mean "to have one's eyes lined with ham"? ⁴ If you know the answers to these questions, then you're John Hodgman. If you had to look for them below, you need this book.⁵

Kee Malesky, author of All Facts Considered, returns with a year's worth of facts on the arts, history, language, natural history, religion, and science to build up your brain. From "What is the only sea without coastlines?" to "How did the tradition of April Fool's Day begin?", this book is the best way to know more stuff than that other guy.⁶

Learn Something New Every Day is the ideal gift for anyone with an inquisitive mind and an appreciation of the wonders of the world around us. But don't give it to them. You don't want them to know more than you do.

1. Bagged bread. 2. Purple. 3. Blame?or thank?Noah Webster. 4. That's the Italian expression for "can't see the wood for the trees." 5. You'd enjoy it too, Mr. Hodgman. 6. Discovering more than one fact per day can cause increased confidence. We've probably already put you at risk with the four above. Learn safely.

Introduction 1

January 5

February 25

March 44

April 64

May 84

June 104

July 124

August 144

September 165

October 186

November 206

December 226

Acknowledgments 247

Notes 250

Illustration Credits 266

Index 268

Sujets

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NPR

National Public Radio

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Publié par	Turner Publishing Company
Date de parution	31 août 2012
Nombre de lectures	2
EAN13	9781118238127
Langue	English

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Contents
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Epigraph
Introduction
Chapter 1: January
JANUARY 1 | “Free Land!” Was the Cry
JANUARY 2 | The Book of Bargains
JANUARY 3 | The Silver Bible
JANUARY 4 | Burma or Myanmar?
JANUARY 5 | The Beautiful Blue Danube
JANUARY 6 | The First American Books
JANUARY 7 | London Calling
JANUARY 8 | A Confrontation of Brains and Fists
JANUARY 9 | The Booziest Nations
JANUARY 10 | The Tube
JANUARY 11 | “Little Stinkers”
JANUARY 12 | Smelly Cinema
JANUARY 13 | Nomads in the Modern World
JANUARY 14 | Pathfinder of the Sea
JANUARY 15 | The Great Molasses Flood
JANUARY 16 | “You Are the Ball”
JANUARY 17 | Glass Armonica
JANUARY 18 | “And So to Every Streete”
JANUARY 19 | An Ecological Paradise
JANUARY 20 | Our Founding Capitalist
JANUARY 21 | A Fountain of Music
JANUARY 22 | Candy Bricks
JANUARY 23 | Luncheon on the Grass
JANUARY 24 | Angelic Voices
JANUARY 25 | Refreshing the Tree of Liberty
JANUARY 26 | The Orange Orange
JANUARY 27 | Las Vegas of the East
JANUARY 28 | The End of the Crawler
JANUARY 29 | The Mormon Battalion
JANUARY 30 | A Great Year for Dinosaurs
JANUARY 31 | Pioneer Recordists
Chapter 2: February
FEBRUARY 1 | Navel Life
FEBRUARY 2 | Shakespeare in China
FEBRUARY 3 | Dueling Pianos
FEBRUARY 4 | The Science of Bacon
FEBRUARY 5 | Evidence Consumed
FEBRUARY 6 | Furry Birds That Don’t Fly
FEBRUARY 7 | A Curtain of Flickering Light
FEBRUARY 8 | The Patron Saint of Science Fiction
FEBRUARY 9 | Beatleland
FEBRUARY 10 | Found in Translation
FEBRUARY 11 | Corporate Naming
FEBRUARY 12 | Mr. Bones
FEBRUARY 13 | Minié’s Ball
FEBRUARY 14 | Water from the Cosmos
FEBRUARY 15 | A God of Darkness
FEBRUARY 16 | Comparing Apples and Oranges
FEBRUARY 17 | “A Jumble of Lines and Patches”
FEBRUARY 18 | In-flight Guernsey
FEBRUARY 19 | Little Armored Ones
FEBRUARY 20 | An Unsuccessful Assassination
FEBRUARY 21 | A Decade of Change
FEBRUARY 22 | The Coldest Place on Earth
FEBRUARY 23 | The End of the Earth
FEBRUARY 24 | The Other End of the Earth
FEBRUARY 25 | Protein Source of the Future
FEBRUARY 26 | “The Vehicles of Life”
FEBRUARY 27 | Nine Lives Had Elfego Baca
FEBRUARY 28 | That’s One Bad Golf Hole
FEBRUARY 29 | A Day for Leapers
Chapter 3: March
MARCH 1 | Monstrous Wigs
MARCH 2 | Kind of Blue
MARCH 3 | Vanishing Alphabets
MARCH 4 | A Tough Election
MARCH 5 | A Nation without a State
MARCH 6 | Consumer Outreach
MARCH 7 | With One Eye Blinking
MARCH 8 | “Where I Can Be of Use”
MARCH 9 | Cranioscopy
MARCH 10 | Droning Overtones
MARCH 11 | Tsunami Flotsam
MARCH 12 | The Integratron
MARCH 13 | First Lady at Work
MARCH 14 | Island of the Spirit
MARCH 15 | Which Carolina?
MARCH 16 | An Ecological Disaster
MARCH 17 | Not So Rare Earths
MARCH 18 | “Almost Like a War”
MARCH 19 | The Threshold of Civilization
MARCH 20 | Psst, Your Automatic Continuing Clothing Closure Is Open
MARCH 21 | Floriography
MARCH 22 | Goniochromism
MARCH 23 | “This Side Up with Care”
MARCH 24 | Operation Acoustic Kitty
MARCH 25 | Tasting Flavors
MARCH 26 | For Men Only
MARCH 27 | Olympic Oddities
MARCH 28 | The Broadest Aspect
MARCH 29 | Truly Wild
MARCH 30 | The Heart of a Champion
MARCH 31 | Pre-Code Hollywood
Chapter 4: April
APRIL 1 | Fool’s Day
APRIL 2 | “Most Priceless Asset”
APRIL 3 | Knickerbockers
APRIL 4 | Movie Music
APRIL 5 | Salt of the Earth
APRIL 6 | The Great Hedge of India
APRIL 7 | Friction Lights
APRIL 8 | There Are No Suits in Baseball
APRIL 9 | The Mysteries of Rapa Nui
APRIL 10 | The Father of the Dream Car
APRIL 11 | A Hole in the Head
APRIL 12 | A Sound Ship
APRIL 13 | Hey, You Guys
APRIL 14 | To Investigate and Safeguard
APRIL 15 | Tax Day
APRIL 16 | Tut’s Trumpets
APRIL 17 | Public Service
APRIL 18 | Houses of Stone
APRIL 19 | The Tie Is the Man
APRIL 20 | Continent or Island?
APRIL 21 | “The Master of the Monstrous”
APRIL 22 | Gandy Dancing with Wild Cat Roughnecks and Grease Monkeys
APRIL 23 | From Lepidoptery to Lolita
APRIL 24 | The First to Die in Space
APRIL 25 | A Female Midnight Rider
APRIL 26 | Shrieking Agony
APRIL 27 | The Crown Palace
APRIL 28 | Counting the Living and the Dead
APRIL 29 | Modern Design in America
APRIL 30 | God Bless Vespucciland
Chapter 5: May
MAY 1 | A Storm of Strikes
MAY 2 | Our Ancient Ancestor
MAY 3 | The Figure of the Earth
MAY 4 | Red Gold
MAY 5 | Flopsy, Mopsy, and Tipsy
MAY 6 | A Hill in Jerusalem
MAY 7 | A River Unbridged
MAY 8 | The Father of American Golf
MAY 9 | Hollywood East
MAY 10 | A Green Capital
MAY 11 | The Star of the Columbian Exposition
MAY 12 | An Acquired Taste
May 13 | Gross Anatomy
MAY 14 | The Gladiatrix
May 15 | Runaway Train
MAY 16 | A Carrot of a Different Color
MAY 17 | The Derby Founder
May 18 | The Egyptian Cinderella
MAY 19 | The Fastest Woman on Earth
May 20 | The First Black Republic
MAY 21 | The Dean of American Engineers
MAY 22 | An Early Gender-Neutral Weapon System
May 23 | Animal Magnetism
MAY 24 | The Singing What?
MAY 25 | Home Party Pioneer
MAY 26 | The World’s Most Perfect Town
MAY 27 | Golden Gate
MAY 28 | The First Lady of the Black Press
MAY 29 | Tiny Golf
MAY 30 | The Maid of Orleans
MAY 31 | A Room of Amber
Chapter 6: June
JUNE 1 | Beasts of a Feather
JUNE 2 | Our Feathered Friends
JUNE 3 | Tornado Technology
JUNE 4 | Geck to Geek
JUNE 5 | A Seat at the Table
JUNE 6 | Elements Named
JUNE 7 | The Field of Cloth of Gold
JUNE 8 | “The Second Legion Augusta Built This”
JUNE 9 | A Composer’s Painful Life
JUNE 10 | Un Grande Escargot
JUNE 11 | Fuzzy Urban Art
JUNE 12 | Houses by Rail and Mail
JUNE 13 | Runway Turtles
JUNE 14 | Not a Sweet Sound
JUNE 15 | Literary Monsters
JUNE 16 | The Threefold Knowledge
JUNE 17 | “Wake Up the Conscience”
JUNE 18 | Tibetan Sky Burial
JUNE 19 | Five-Cent Theater
JUNE 20 | Urban Arcadia
JUNE 21 | “Sodom by the Sea”
JUNE 22 | Saddle Up That Camel
JUNE 23 | The Call of the Universe
JUNE 24 | Holy Wifi
JUNE 25 | Prester John
JUNE 26 | Not Doubleday
JUNE 27 | The Flying Mammal
JUNE 28 | Stonewalling for Their Rights
JUNE 29 | Meet Me at the Corner of Prospect and Weyse
JUNE 30 | Stunting at Niagara
Chapter 7: July
JULY 1 | Crossing the USA
July 2 | Drift and Dream
JULY 3 | The President Is a Sick Man
JULY 4 | The Firelands
JULY 5 | The Sun Goddess of Japan
JULY 6 | An Artist for Peace
JULY 7 | The Greatest Thing Since
JULY 8 | In a Galaxy Far, Far Away
JULY 9 | To Delight the Inhabitants
JULY 10 | “Forced to Write for Bread”
JULY 11 | Carnivores Triumphant
JULY 12 | The Prince of Soups
JULY 13 | The Blue Stone
JULY 14 | Nettoyage à Sec
JULY 15 | A Nineteenth-Century Rosa Parks
JULY 16 | The First Commercial Hijacking
JULY 17 | The Smartest Man Ever
JULY 18 | Wrong Way Corrigan
JULY 19 | Just Out of Reach
JULY 20 | For All Mankind
JULY 21 | “The Abyss of the Deep Laid Open”
JULY 22 | A Plague of Locusts
JULY 23 | The Conqueror of the Air
JULY 24 | It’s about Time
JULY 25 | QWERTY
JULY 26 | Candy from the Marshes
JULY 27 | From Bill-Posters to Pop Hits
JULY 28 | Black Blizzards
JULY 29 | Adaptable Gulls
JULY 30 | Extended Family in Heaven
JULY 31 | Our Father’s Home
Chapter 8: August
AUGUST 1 | The Unicorn Whale
AUGUST 2 | The Center of the Nation
AUGUST 3 | The Cathedral of Learning
AUGUST 4 | A Moving Experience
AUGUST 5 | The Shogun
AUGUST 6 | Work Begun by Nero
AUGUST 7 | The First Family of Human Paleontology
AUGUST 8 | “Very Loud and Noisy”
AUGUST 9 | Nixon and McDonald’s
AUGUST 10 | Lines Seen Only by the Gods
AUGUST 11 | Time Shift
AUGUST 12 | Early American Idol
AUGUST 13 | A Boyhood Dream Accomplished
AUGUST 14 | A Riot Like a Cyclone
AUGUST 15 | Most Fearless
AUGUST 16 | America’s Prima Ballerina
AUGUST 17 | “Look to Africa”
AUGUST 18 | Sun Writing
AUGUST 19 | A Gift to the World
AUGUST 20 | War’s End
AUGUST 21 | Stolen Mona
AUGUST 22 | Confused Fruit
AUGUST 23 | “A Scene Truly Horrible”
AUGUST 24 | A Cosmic Classic
AUGUST 25 | Not Jimmy’s Night
AUGUST 26 | A Filk State of Being
AUGUST 27 | The Fury of Vulcan
AUGUST 28 | An Essential Element
AUGUST 29 | “Ye Noble Tons of Soil”
AUGUST 30 | The White Mouse
AUGUST 31 | “Completely Free”
Chapter 9: September
SEPTEMBER 1 | The Battle That Stopped Rome
SEPTEMBER 2 | “I Will Harm”
SEPTEMBER 3 | The Ancient Land of Liberty
SEPTEMBER 4 | The City of the Angels
SEPTEMBER 5 | A Day for Laborers
SEPTEMBER 6 | Horns of Dilemma
SEPTEMBER 7 | “There Is No Second”
SEPTEMBER 8 | Room to Read
SEPTEMBER 9 | Grog St. Laurent
SEPTEMBER 10 | Naked Is the Best Disguise
SEPTEMBER 11 | Chile’s “Dark and Bitter Moment”
SEPTEMBER 12 | A Stylish Style
SEPTEMBER 13 | “Pursuite & Carnage”
SEPTEMBER 14 | What So Proudly We Hailed
SEPTEMBER 15 | The Crash at Crush
SEPTEMBER 16 | Godfather of Gangsta
SEPTEMBER 17 | A View of Death
SEPTEMBER 18 | Four Dead in Five Seconds
SEPTEMBER 19 | Under the Jolly Roger
SEPTEMBER 20 | Millions of Fellow Life Forms
SEPTEMBER 21 | “With a Helpless Expression”
SEPTEMBER 22 | Your Own Image
SEPTEMBER 23 | Go to Jail, Go Directly to Jail
SEPTEMBER 24 | “Proclaim Liberty throughout All the Land”
SEPTEMBER 25 | Talk Like an Egyptian
SEPTEMBER 26 | The Apple Man
SEPTEMBER 27 | Outstanding Woman Athlete
SEPTEMBER 28 | “Do Everything”
SEPTEMBER 29 | American Architect
SEPTEMBER 30 | Scribal Errors
Chapter 10: October
OCTOBER 1 | Fire of the Desert
OCTOBER 2 | A Paleozoogeographic Event
OCTOBER 3 | Driving on Planks
OCTOBER 4 | Lion-Scorpion Man
OCTOBER 5 | The Story of Canudos
OCTOBER 6 | Germy Sponges
OCTOBER 7 | Writing under Constraint
OCTOBER 8 | Th

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