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For ten years, the knowledge seekers at mental_floss have been hunting and trapping the world's rarest facts, locking them into captivating lists for the world to admire. Thanks to their tireless efforts, Mental Floss: The Book is packed with a decade's worth of the smartest, quirkiest stories around, including:
Five Presidential Fashion Flubs Seven Shameless Abuses of Diplomatic Immunity Five Units of Measurement Weirder Than the Metric System Four Toys That Have Gone to War for America Seven Reasons Mister Rogers Was the Best Neighbor Ever Five Things Your Body Can Do After You Die Six of Baseball's Strangest Trades Four Foods People Actually Die For Seven Things Walmart Has Banned Four TV Shows That Changed the Course of History Ten "Q" Words That Aren't "Q-U" Words Four Horrifying Parasites to Keep You Awake at Night Eight Fake Archaeological Finds Five Articles of Clothing That Caused Riots Four Memorable Moments in Cross-Dressing History Five Doomsdays We've Already Survived And 124 Other Extraordinary Lists!
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Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Contents
- Introduction
- 10 CHEAT SHEETS FOR IMPRESSING A DIPLOMAT, PRESIDENT, OR POPE
- Five Presidential Fashion Flubs
- Five Modern Independence Movements
- And Three Other Presidential Secrets Left Off the White House Tour
- Three Offbeat Military Units
- Eight Flag Facts For the Next State Dinner You Host
- The 10 Greatest Campaign Slogans in Presidential History
- Five Historical Bans on Smoking
- Five Secrets of the Vatican Exposed
- Four of the Largest, Oddest, and Most Useless State Projects in the World
- Seven Shameless Abuses of Diplomatic Immunity
- 10 LISTS THAT SHOULD COME WITH A LAB COAT
- Eight Questions You Probably Need Answered Immediately
- Five Units of Measurement Weirder than the Metric System
- Eight Everyday Items Brought to You by NASA (and Why Tang Isn't One of Them)
- . and One Pop Culture Killer
- The Chemicals That Will Power the Future
- Five Weather Events Worth Chatting About
- Four Aphrodisiacs from Around the World
- Five Facts for the Lunar Enthusiast
- Five Nobel Prize Stories Ripped from the Tabloids
- Five Ways Museums Detect Forgeries
- 10 LISTS YOU CAN SHARE WITH YOUR KIDS (OR YOUR INNER CHILD)
- Five Fail-Safe Rituals For Protecting Your Newborn
- Five Times Crayola Fired Its Crayons
- How Seven Classic Toys Were Invented
- Four Kids' Toys That Have Gone to War for America
- Four Comic Superheroes Who Made a Real-World Difference
- The Stories Behind Nine Muppet Favorites
- Bumpy, Hickey, Chesty, and Seven Other Rejected Dwarf Names
- Six Laws of Cartoon Physics
- Seven Reasons Mr. Rogers Was the Best Neighbor Ever
- Seven Things Disney Parks Have Banned
- 10 LISTS TO LIGHTEN THE MOOD AT THE E.R.
- Three Defunct Diseases You Definitely Don't Have
- Five Things You've Always Wanted to Know About Your Body
- Touch Your Glabella! Seven Body Parts You Can't Name
- The Missing Body Parts of Seven Famous People
- Seven Little-Known Toe Facts
- Five Mind-Boggling Psychiatric Treatments
- Six Deaths that Were Greatly Exaggerated
- The Curious Deaths of 10 Interesting People
- Five Things Your Body Can Do after You Die
- Four Famous Grave Robberies
- 10 SPORTS LISTS FOR PEOPLE WHO CAN'T DUNK
- Six Gloriously Underhanded Sports Tactics
- Five Cheer-Worthy Acts of Sportsmanship
- 10 Unbelievable Performance-Enhancing Substances
- Five Sports Heroes You Won't Find on a Wheaties Box
- Five Major Scandals from Five Minor Sports
- Insult to Injury 13 Unlucky and Unusual Sports Injuries
- Go Cornjerkers! 10 Unbelievable High School Mascots
- Six of Baseball's Strangest Trades
- Six Athlete Contract Clauses Only an Agent Could Imagine
- Five Downright Bizarre Athlete Superstitions
- 10 FOOD LISTS TO MAKE YOUR MOUTH WATER
- The World's Eight Messiest Food Festivals
- Four Foods People Actually Die For
- Eight Foods That (Thankfully) Flopped
- The Birthplaces of Seven Great American Foods
- Six Tasty Foods Named after People
- Three Real People in Your Pantry . and Two that Aren't
- The Origins of Five Condiments
- Essential Talking Points for the Banana Enthusiast
- The Stories Behind Seven Cocktails
- Three Drinking Stories That Put Yours to Shame
- 10 LISTS THAT MEAN BUSINESS
- Six Jobs You Didn't Hear About on Career Day
- 10 Abbreviated Company Names Explained
- Five Wildly Successful People Who Survived Bankruptcy
- The Origins of Six Hi-Tech Names
- Six Ad Campaigns Gone Terribly Wrong
- 10 Arguments Against Paying Your Taxes (That Won't Work)
- Seven Things Walmart Has Banned
- Five Beloved Traditions Invented to Make You Buy Stuff
- Five Coins That Aren't Boring
- Strange Early Jobs of 13 Famous People
- 10 POP CULTURE LISTS TO BREAK OUT ON THE RED CARPET
- What Seven of Your Favorite Movies Were Almost Called
- Four Actors Who Changed History
- The Origins of 10 Celebrity Stage Names
- Eight Celebs and their Incredibly Odd Phobias
- Four TV Shows That Changed History
- 10 TV Shows Scrapped after Just One Episode
- Five Famous Actors and the Roles They Turned Down
- Eight Celebrity Inventors Who Hold Patents
- Three Oddball Lawsuits Plucked from Pop Culture
- The World's a Trophy Case Where Five Oscar Winners Keep the Little Guy
- 10 LISTS FOR PEOPLE WHO CAN'T WRITE GOOD
- Six Works of Literature That Were Really Hard to Write
- What 10 Fictional Characters Were Almost Called
- What Eight Classic Books Were Almost Called
- Eight Latin Phrases You Pretend to Understand
- Six Words Invented by Authors
- The Little-Known Stories of Five Famous Authors
- Five Famous Phrases People Own
- The Nautical Roots of Six Common Phrases
- Nine Things Mark Twain Didn't Say (And Nine He Did)
- 10 "Q" Words That Aren't "Q-U" Words
- 10 ANIMAL LISTS THAT DON'T BITE
- Seven Clever Critters That Are Great with Tools
- Three Super-Animals Keeping an Eye on Terror
- Five Technologies Lifted from the Animal Kingdom
- Three Incredible Explanations on How Your Dog Works
- Five Creatures People Didn't Think Existed
- Four Horrifying Parasites to Keep You Awake at Night
- Eight Facts for the Turkey Enthusiast
- 10 Words for Animal Packs Weirder than a "Murder" of Crows
- Eight Animals Named after Celebrities
- Seven Animal Phrase Origins
- 10 LISTS TO READ BEFORE NAMING YOUR CHILD, COMPANY, OR ALTER-EGO
- Six Baby Names You Probably Shouldn't Give Your Kid
- How Seven American Cities Got Their Names
- 10 Common Words that Used to be Trademarked
- 14 Fictional Characters Whose Names You Didn't Know
- Four Irritatingly Inaccurate Names
- How Six Colors Got Their Names
- Five Awful Eponyms (and the People Who Can't Live Them Down)
- Seven Companies and Products That Had to Change Their Names
- Five Curious Personal Name Changes
- Five Products Named after Real People
- 10 LISTS OF LEMONS
- The Five Most Annoying People in History
- Five Odd Things Customs Has Seized
- Six Unit Conversion Disasters
- Four Massive Screwups in Paleontology
- Three Artistic Rivalries That Turned Ugly
- Four Infamous Quarantines
- Five Articles of Clothing That Caused Riots
- Six Dangerous Works of Art
- Eight Fake Archaeological Finds
- Four Consumer Revolutions That Didn't Deliver
- 10 LISTS OF LEMONADE
- Four Brilliant Scientific Screwups
- 10 Weirdest Pieces of Unclaimed Baggage
- Five Great Escapes Not Involving Steve McQueen (and One Involving a Bear)
- Four People Who Found a Fortune
- Four Lost Treasures Just Waiting to Be Found
- Five Famous Stutterers
- 10 Trademarked Colors
- Six Creative Uses for Poop
- The Unlikely Inspiration for Five Brilliant Inventions
- Five Doomsdays We've Already Survived
- 10 LISTS THAT DIDN'T FIT NICELY INTO ANY OTHER CHAPTER
- Five Stamp Stories Worth Retelling
- Four Memorable Moments in Cross-Dressing History
- Five Little-Known Pirate Stories
- Six Candidates for the World's First Pop Song
- Nine Quirky College Donations and the Strings Attached
- The Origins of Eight Superstitions (Seven Would Have Been Luckier)
- Five Things You Didn't Know About the Lottery
- Five Songs That Sound Like They're About Women (But Aren't)
- The Five Most Important Smooches in the Universe
- Five Oddly Specific Museums Preserving Our History
- Contributors
- Photo Credits
- Back Ad
- Other Works
- Credits
- Copyright
- About the Publisher
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