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Isaac Asimov’s Book of Facts

By Isaac Asimov

Book information

Publisher
Gramercy
Year
1991
ISBN
0517065037, 9780517065037
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
37 MB (38353368 bytes)
Edition
Reissue
Pages
512\520
Time added
2018-06-25 07:00:30
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Description

Within the pages of Isaac Asimov's Book of Facts are many hours of entertaining and informative reading—little-known facts that will make you exclaim, time and again, "I didn't know that!" Here are some of the intriguing facts you will find in this book: -Emperor Caligula appointed his favorite horse as a consul of Rome. -Eskimos use refrigerators to keep food from freezing. -For distances of up to 150 feet, an alligator can outrace a man. -In 1896, two men rowed across the Atlantic. -The number of possible ways of playing just the first four moves on each side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000. -Jimmy Carter was the first U.S. president to be born in a hospital.

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