Last night, I finished "The Know-It-All" and I was very pleased with the book. Very good. This man took a whole year out of his life and read the entire Encyclopedia Britannica. Thats pretty ballsy if you ask me. That is 40 million words (I believe that is what he said). Thats a lot. It was interesting. There were bits and pieces of random information that stuck with me.
-Heroin was devolped by the Bayer company. Yes, the one that makes medicine for headaches.
-Cocaine was originally developed as a hunger depressant.
the wod 'gymnasium' in greek literally translates to a place to work out in the nude.
-The book of Ecclesiates in the Bible has the answer to life.
-The last entry in the whole series of the encylopedia is a little town in Poland.
-Tom Cruise does not have an entry in the encyclopedia
Good read altogether. I highly suggest it. But just as a sidenote, you will not know everything after reading this book or the encyclopedia (in case you were thinking of reading all 29 volumes)
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