Lannoo

Book - 888 facts that you can quickly forget

€16,99
  • The conclusion of Herman Boel's successful trilogy of trivia

Did you know that...

  • giraffes only sleep half an hour a day?
  • Can your dog also get the flu?
  • Formula 1 pilots blink tactically?
  • our nose can detect a trillion smells?
  • you could walk across a zebra crossing for the first time in 1951?
  • there is a reason we wear a wedding ring on the fourth finger of our left hand?
  • you can post a letter 10 meters deep in the sea in Japan?

In this thick book, trivia king Herman Boel collects 888 brand new did-you-knows that surprise us time and again. Did you know that monkeys also suffer from a midlife crisis, that elephants have a really great memory and that plants like to be petted? Or why counting in Danish is extremely difficult and why you better not keep your arms up in a roller coaster?

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