Asimov Isaac. Isaac Asimov’s Book of Facts

Gramercy, 1991. — 520 p. — ISBN 9780517065037, 0517065037.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.About Kings
About Queens
All That Glitters
America's Revolution
American Indians
Ancient Peoples
Animal World
Art
Better to Give
Bottom Line
Catastrophes
Children
Cities
Cold Facts
Communications
Compounds and Elements
Creepy Crawly
De Gustibus
Discoveries
Eccentricities
Energy
Explorations
Fashions
Fine Feathered Friends
Finny Facts
Fluid Facts
Fossils
Founding Fathers
Genius
Glory That Was Rome
And Greece Too
Good Old Days
Green World
Halls of Ivy
Innovations
Into the Air
Laws
Literary Life
Man's Inhumanity
Medicine
Metal Matters
Mighty Mites
Military
Military Secrets
Misconceptions
Modern Living
Modern Technology
Monuments and Palaces
Numbers and Statistics
Of Wives and Mistresses
On Books
The Orient
Our Bodies
Our Planet
Pampered Pets
Politics and Politicias
Presidents
Presidents' Wives
Prophets
Religion
Salty Facts
Sharps and Flats
Sky Watchers
Solar System
Sports
Stop the Presses
Strange Happenings
Strange Rules, Laws, and Customs
That's Entertainment
Universe
United States
U.S. Civil War
Weather
What a Way to Go
What's in a Name
Women's Rights
Words