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Isaac Asimov's Book of Facts

Within the pages of "Isaac Asimov's Book of Facts "are many hours of entertaining and informative reading — little-known facts that will make you exclaim, time and again, "I didn't know that!"

Here are some of the intriguing facts you will find in this book:

-Emperor Caligula appointed his favorite horse as a consul of Rome.

-Eskimos use refrigerators to keep food from freezing.

-For distances of up to 150 feet, an alligator can outrace a man.

-In 1896, two men rowed across the Atlantic.

-The number of possible ways of playing just the first four moves on each side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000.

-Jimmy Carter was the first U.S. president to be born in a hospital.

  • Format
  • hardcover
  • Pages
  • 512
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780517065037
  • Genres
  • reference, science, trivia, history, education
  • Release date
  • 1987