Cats Are Capable of Mind Control: And 1,000+ UberFacts You Never Knew You Needed to Know

By Kris Sanchez

From the creator of the popular Twitter sensation UberFacts comes this fun compilation quiz book, packed with entertaining infographics and surprising factoids, for fans of Schott’s Miscellany, What If? and Ripley’s Believe It or Not.

Providing "the most unimportant things you’ll never need to know”—fun and surprising facts, statistics, and infographics on diverse subjects, from art and science to history and popular culture—UberFacts has become one of the most widely followed and successful accounts on Twitter, followed by nearly 12 million people.

Based on the popular social media phenomenon and culled from an exhaustive variety of sources—science journals, books, media, and literary magazines—Cats are Capable of Mind Control is a fascinating collection of shocking, delightful, educational, and informative facts and figures that are entertaining, topical, and sometimes downright bizarre (the safest place to suffer sudden cardiac arrest in the U.S. is a casino).

Did you know:

• The Pentagon was constructed so that no point in the building is more than a ten-minute walk from any other point?
• Vultures’ stomach acid is so corrosive they can digest anthrax?
• Farmers in India use Coca-Cola and Pepsi as cheap and effective pesticides?

Discover all this and much, much more in this treasure trove of trivia for the social media age.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Open Road Integrated Media
• Release date: Jul 5, 2016
• ISBN: 9780062441171

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Contents

Introduction

Science

History

Art & Literature

Health & Medicine

Psychology

Pop Culture

Food, Animals, Objects, & More!

About the Author

Credits

Copyright

About the Publisher

Introduction

UberFacts is the brainchild of social media addict/professional procrastinator Kris Sanchez—I originally started finding facts because I didn’t want to study for a history exam my freshman year of college. Needless to say, I didn’t pass the exam, never finished college, and this book almost didn’t happen.

While searching for random facts about the number of insects on Earth or how honeybees reproduce isn’t what you’d expect your average 18-year-old college student to do in his free time, it definitely paid off.

UberFacts now has more than 16 million followers across its social profiles and is dedicated to sharing the most bizarre, unimportant, and mind-boggling pieces of information anyone could ever ask for. The goal is to make learning fun, keep it light, and get readers genuinely interested in learning more about our weird world. The facts also make great icebreakers and can help you out on a bad date (believe me, I’m experienced when it comes to bad dates).

Of course, this intro wouldn’t be complete without some shameless promotion, so make sure you find UberFacts on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram! If you'd like to find out more fun facts, or dig deeper into the sources that this book consulted, visit uber-facts.com/sources.

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