Serious Trivia: All the Facts You Didn't Know You Wanted to Know

By Jonn Elledge

A treasure trove of knowledge covering everything from the furthest known galaxies to the murky origins of oyster ice cream--and the surprising stories behind these fascinating facts

In this illuminating compendium of far-ranging information, no topic is too trivial for serious consideration, from how one might determine the most average-sized country in the world to the details of humanity's most ridiculous wars to the answer to who would win in a fight between Harry Potter and Spider-Man.

Serious Trivia covers the breadth and depth of human experience, weaving its way through words and numbers, science and the arts, the spiritual and the secular. It's a feast of facts for a hungry mind, including entries on the cosmos, the human planet (and the lines we draw on it), questions of measurement, history and politics, the natural world, leisure, and many "oddities" that don't fit elsewhere. Bizarre, brilliant, and filled with things you didn't know you didn't know, Serious Trivia evokes a sense of wonder at the scale of this planet, and the universe in which it sits.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FTTMVRD1
• ISBN13: 9798893031485
• Release Date: May 2026
• Publisher: Experiment
• Length: 320 Pages