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  • 238 pages
  • Category: History
  • "Want to impress your buddies at the bar? Need to think of something interesting to do at the next family gathering? Want to learn a bunch of random facts about history, science, true crime, and the paranormal? Pick up Interesting Stories for Curious People, the ultimate guide book for a plethora of interesting facts about a whole bunch of several different topics. A quick read packed with information from cover to cover."
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Publication date: March 16, 2020
Print length: 238 pages
Customer Reviews: 4.5 out of 5 stars / 9,522 ratings

Want to impress your buddies at the bar?

Need to think of something interesting to do at the next family gathering?

Want to learn a bunch of random facts about history, science, true crime, and the paranormal?

Pick up Interesting Stories for Curious People, the ultimate guidebook for a plethora of interesting facts about a whole bunch of several different topics. A quick read packed with information from cover to cover.

Here you will find out:
  • How did a Frenchman successfully use a spontaneous combustion defense during a murder trial?
  • How did a German teenager help end the Cold War?
  • Why did some really smart guys think foam houses would be the wave of the future?
  • What is a chupacabra and why are there two of them?
  • Did Cleopatra really die from a snake bite?
You'll be glued to the pages of this book reading interesting fact after interesting fact as Interesting Stories for Curious People brings you the in-depth knowledge of some things you may have heard about and always wondered, but now will learn the truth. You'll finally be able to separate fact from fiction and will be surprised to learn that some of the things you've been told, even by your teachers, was just plain wrong!

Whether you are a trivia maven or just a person who likes to learn new things, you'll learn something new and find yourself entertained as you discover some of the most fascination criminals, ghost stories, strange habits of historical figures, and just weird things that are a part of our world. So open this book and your mind and see another side of things that you may not know existed.

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Terrible book. And NOT for kids. My in-laws bought this for my child last month. The cover looks innocent enough. I should have read the amazon reviews. Check out the video review showing a screenshot of the story about a guy that kills women (shot one in the back), then keeps the bodies for months and eats them. Then dumps remains in lake. Most of the other short stories are like that. And even if that's your thing, the writing is pretty bad.
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My library has it for free. Thanks!
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That description actually made me more interested in this book, but I checked the preview on Amazon and this does look like a lazy quickie-type book. Most of the entries are maybe five paragraphs long and the topics aren't grouped in any logical way and seem chosen at random. They're so short, it's only surface level info about anything - I would bet money that this entire book is just Wikipedia articles rewritten in a more conversational style. It doesn't look like any real research went into this book.
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gmr2048
06-28-2021 at 09:47 AM.
06-28-2021 at 09:47 AM.
Quote from Jahlives :
Terrible book. And NOT for kids. My in-laws bought this for my child last month. The cover looks innocent enough. I should have read the amazon reviews. Check out the video review showing a screenshot of the story about a guy that kills women (shot one in the back), then keeps the bodies for months and eats them. Then dumps remains in lake. Most of the other short stories are like that. And even if that's your thing, the writing is pretty bad.
Holy crap. Thanks for that. Saved me from buying it for my 9 and 13 year olds.
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dr.boyd
06-28-2021 at 10:15 AM.
06-28-2021 at 10:15 AM.
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/ is free.
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Angela08
06-28-2021 at 11:42 AM.
06-28-2021 at 11:42 AM.
Quote from Jahlives :
Terrible book. And NOT for kids. My in-laws bought this for my child last month. The cover looks innocent enough. I should have read the amazon reviews. Check out the video review showing a screenshot of the story about a guy that kills women (shot one in the back), then keeps the bodies for months and eats them. Then dumps remains in lake. Most of the other short stories are like that. And even if that's your thing, the writing is pretty bad.
Thank you! We'll pass.
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06-28-2021 at 01:31 PM.
06-28-2021 at 01:31 PM.
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Oh, I mean my local library has the physical copy. 🙂

Amazon hasn't bought out the library systems yet?
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treptrek
06-28-2021 at 04:58 PM.
06-28-2021 at 04:58 PM.
Downloaded. Spent 20 min on this. Just terrible. Written like a middle school report, subject matter chosen to shock and mostly failing.... it does fairly consistently bore.Roll Eyes (Sarcastic)

If all 11,000+ people who viewed this downloaded and took the same time as I did to rage quit, then we have wasted a combined 152 days of life on this terrible book.LMAO

I cannot reclaim this time, but I can spend this additional 5 min warning others.

Move on. Not even worth the second it takes to download.
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SiennaRoute145
06-28-2021 at 06:53 PM.
06-28-2021 at 06:53 PM.
As a long time reader of this author's many books, I found this book to be very interesting, because it does not give one-line definitions or meanings to questions, but whole stories and histories of that piece of trivia. You get a 'behind the scenes' look that you'd not otherwise get from a regular dictionary or trivia book. I found it interesting, captivating, and enjoyable to read.Recommended.
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