The Know It All
I've recently been inspired to read the full Encyclopedia Britannica from A-Z. Unfortunately, I won't be able to tell people I'm the first person in the world to have done it, though - an author by the name of A.J. Jacobs beat me to it and wrote a book about his Britannica quest already.
The Know-It-All is such an amusing book that it has joined the ranks of my book favorites (which include Tuesdays with Morrie, Animal Farm, The Phantom Tollbooth, and anything by Charles Schulz.
I've learned a lot of random bits of information from TKIA, including how Rene Descartes has a fetish for cross-eyed women, that you can get into Mensa simply by having a high SAT score, that there are IQ societies that are higher than Mensa, that the Opium Wars were started in a "Boston Tea Party-esque" way when a Chinese official dumped opium into the sea, that Absalom (a biblical hero) died by getting his flowing hair caught in the branches in an oak tree, thus allowing his enemy Joab to catch him and slay him, and that Alex Trebek likes gardening and thinks he would be a total failure at Jeopardy!
If anything, I might just read the World Book Encyclopedia...apparently that one has lots of pictures.
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