What this volume covers

History and the wider world are stranger than fiction. This volume gathers 30 genuinely true, cross-checked facts of the ‘wait, that really happened?’ variety — did you know the shortest war in history lasted about 38 minutes, that Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon landing than to the Great Pyramid, or that Australia once effectively lost a war against emus? Prepare to doubt, then believe.

30 verified facts across 17 categories

Categories inside: Animals · Astronomy · Culture · Food · Geography · History · Language · Mathematics · Money · Nature · Numbers · Ocean · Science · Space · Sports · Technology · Weather

The shortest war in history lasted about 38 minutes

There are more possible chess games than atoms in the observable universe

Australia once ‘lost’ a war against emus

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