You Are One-Third Daffodil: And Other Facts to Amaze, Amuse, and Astound

By Tom Nuttall

Book Overview

Did you know that most toilets flush in E-flat? Or that American Airlines once saved $40,000 by removing a single olive from each salad served in first class? Well, now you will with this clever, fun, and occasionally shocking compendium of facts from around the world. Organized into witty categories, including "Battle of the Sexes: Facts About Men and Women" and "The Past Is a Foreign Country: Facts About History," You Are One-third Daffodil contains hundreds of weird and wacky facts, including: *In Milan, it is a legal requirement to smile at all times, except during funerals or hospital visits. *The most expensive age of your life is thirty-four. *Cuba will lift its ban on toasters in 2010. *Thomas Jefferson invented the swivel chair. *The "zip" of zip code stands for "zone improvement plan." *Counting up from zero, and excluding the word "and," the first number to contain the letter "a" is one thousand. *There are an estimated 10,000 trillion ants on earth-roughly 1.6 million ants for each person. Their combined weight is equivalent to the weight of the entire human population. *In the Second World War, every Italian soldier in North Africa carried his own personal espresso machine. So go ahead, become the office Einstein (though did you know Einstein didn't learn to read until he was ten?) or the cocktail party trivia star with You Are One-third Daffodil . The words "did you know?" will never sound the same again

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0767932463
• ISBN13: 9780767932462
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.1" x 7.6"

Customer Reviews

i love this book!

i also really like that the book is spread into different categories, very fun read!

this book is a ton of fun for the road and usefully kill time

this book is so fun to read aloud with friends. lots of random facts to learn and memorize. awesome conversation starters!

Fun!

I couldn't put this book down. Then I kept finding stuff in it that was just so quirky and weird and unbelievable, that I had to keep telling my husband, "Oh my gosh, listen to this, did you know..._____!"

Funny book with lots of little tidbits about life

Great book with lots of interesting tidbits/ trivia about life. Book new and arrived in timely manner.

Fun and Entertaining

I purchased this book for my 8 year-old niece, who loves trivia of all kinds, for Christmas and she absolutely loved it. She spent an entire afternoon rattling off different facts to the whole family, and the book is full of fun, interesting, eclectic information. Quasi-warning - there is a section on death and dying in the book that, while not graphic, does give information and details on notable deaths. I would definitely purchase this book as a gift again, though, and am thinking about picking up a copy for myself!