10 CHEAT SHEETS FOR IMPRESSING A DIPLOMAT, PRESIDENT, OR POPE
Five Presidential Fashion Flubs
Five Modern Independence Movements
And Three Other Presidential Secrets Left Off the White House Tour
Eight Flag Facts For the Next State Dinner You Host
The 10 Greatest Campaign Slogans in Presidential History
Five Historical Bans on Smoking
Five Secrets of the Vatican Exposed
Four of the Largest, Oddest, and Most Useless State Projects in the World
Seven Shameless Abuses of Diplomatic Immunity
10 LISTS THAT SHOULD COME WITH A LAB COAT
Eight Questions You Probably Need Answered Immediately
Five Units of Measurement Weirder than the Metric System
Eight Everyday Items Brought to You by NASA (and Why Tang Isn’t One of Them)
The Chemicals That Will Power the Future
Five Weather Events Worth Chatting About
Four Aphrodisiacs from Around the World
Five Facts for the Lunar Enthusiast
Five Nobel Prize Stories Ripped from the Tabloids
Five Ways Museums Detect Forgeries
10 LISTS YOU CAN SHARE WITH YOUR KIDS (OR YOUR INNER CHILD)
Five Fail-Safe Rituals For Protecting Your Newborn
Five Times Crayola Fired Its Crayons
How Seven Classic Toys Were Invented
Four Kids’ Toys That Have Gone to War for America
Four Comic Superheroes Who Made a Real-World Difference
The Stories Behind Nine Muppet Favorites
Bumpy, Hickey, Chesty, and Seven Other Rejected Dwarf Names
Seven Reasons Mr. Rogers Was the Best Neighbor Ever
Seven Things Disney Parks Have Banned
10 LISTS TO LIGHTEN THE MOOD AT THE E.R.
Three Defunct Diseases You Definitely Don’t Have
Five Things You’ve Always Wanted to Know About Your Body
Touch Your Glabella! Seven Body Parts You Can’t Name
The Missing Body Parts of Seven Famous People
Five Mind-Boggling Psychiatric Treatments
Six Deaths that Were Greatly Exaggerated
The Curious Deaths of 10 Interesting People
Five Things Your Body Can Do after You Die
10 SPORTS LISTS FOR PEOPLE WHO CAN’T DUNK
Six Gloriously Underhanded Sports Tactics
Five Cheer-Worthy Acts of Sportsmanship
10 Unbelievable Performance-Enhancing Substances
Five Sports Heroes You Won’t Find on a Wheaties Box
Five Major Scandals from Five Minor Sports
Insult to Injury: 13 Unlucky and Unusual Sports Injuries
Go Cornjerkers! 10 Unbelievable High School Mascots
Six of Baseball’s Strangest Trades
Six Athlete Contract Clauses Only an Agent Could Imagine
Five Downright Bizarre Athlete Superstitions
10 FOOD LISTS TO MAKE YOUR MOUTH WATER
The World’s Eight Messiest Food Festivals
Four Foods People Actually Die For
Eight Foods That (Thankfully) Flopped
The Birthplaces of Seven Great American Foods
Six Tasty Foods Named after People
Three Real People in Your Pantry … and Two that Aren’t
The Origins of Five Condiments
Essential Talking Points for the Banana Enthusiast
The Stories Behind Seven Cocktails
Three Drinking Stories That Put Yours to Shame
Six Jobs You Didn’t Hear About on Career Day
10 Abbreviated Company Names Explained
Five Wildly Successful People Who Survived Bankruptcy
The Origins of Six Hi-Tech Names
Six Ad Campaigns Gone Terribly Wrong
10 Arguments Against Paying Your Taxes (That Won’t Work)
Seven Things Walmart Has Banned
Five Beloved Traditions Invented to Make You Buy Stuff
Strange Early Jobs of 13 Famous People
10 POP CULTURE LISTS TO BREAK OUT ON THE RED CARPET
What Seven of Your Favorite Movies Were Almost Called
Four Actors Who Changed History
The Origins of 10 Celebrity Stage Names
Eight Celebs and their Incredibly Odd Phobias
Four TV Shows That Changed History
10 TV Shows Scrapped after Just One Episode
Five Famous Actors and the Roles They Turned Down
Eight Celebrity Inventors Who Hold Patents
Three Oddball Lawsuits Plucked from Pop Culture
The World’s a Trophy Case: Where Five Oscar Winners Keep the Little Guy
10 LISTS FOR PEOPLE WHO CAN’T WRITE GOOD
Six Works of Literature That Were Really Hard to Write
What 10 Fictional Characters Were Almost Called
What Eight Classic Books Were Almost Called
Eight Latin Phrases You Pretend to Understand
The Little-Known Stories of Five Famous Authors
Five Famous Phrases People Own
The Nautical Roots of Six Common Phrases
Nine Things Mark Twain Didn’t Say (And Nine He Did)
10 “Q” Words That Aren’t “Q-U” Words
10 ANIMAL LISTS THAT DON’T BITE
Seven Clever Critters That Are Great with Tools
Three Super-Animals Keeping an Eye on Terror
Five Technologies Lifted from the Animal Kingdom
Three Incredible Explanations on How Your Dog Works
Five Creatures People Didn’t Think Existed
Four Horrifying Parasites to Keep You Awake at Night
Eight Facts for the Turkey Enthusiast
10 Words for Animal Packs Weirder than a “Murder” of Crows
Eight Animals Named after Celebrities
10 LISTS TO READ BEFORE NAMING YOUR CHILD, COMPANY, OR ALTER-EGO
Six Baby Names You Probably Shouldn’t Give Your Kid
How Seven American Cities Got Their Names
10 Common Words that Used to be Trademarked
14 Fictional Characters Whose Names You Didn’t Know
Four Irritatingly Inaccurate Names
How Six Colors Got Their Names
Five Awful Eponyms (and the People Who Can’t Live Them Down)
Seven Companies and Products That Had to Change Their Names
Five Curious Personal Name Changes
Five Products Named after Real People
The Five Most Annoying People in History
Five Odd Things Customs Has Seized
Four Massive Screwups in Paleontology
Three Artistic Rivalries That Turned Ugly
Five Articles of Clothing That Caused Riots
Eight Fake Archaeological Finds
Four Consumer Revolutions That Didn’t Deliver
Four Brilliant Scientific Screwups
10 Weirdest Pieces of Unclaimed Baggage
Five Great Escapes Not Involving Steve McQueen (and One Involving a Bear)
Four People Who Found a Fortune
Four Lost Treasures Just Waiting to Be Found
The Unlikely Inspiration for Five Brilliant Inventions
Five Doomsdays We’ve Already Survived
10 LISTS THAT DIDN’T FIT NICELY INTO ANY OTHER CHAPTER
Five Stamp Stories Worth Retelling
Four Memorable Moments in Cross-Dressing History
Five Little-Known Pirate Stories
Six Candidates for the World’s First Pop Song
Nine Quirky College Donations and the Strings Attached
The Origins of Eight Superstitions (Seven Would Have Been Luckier)
Five Things You Didn’t Know About the Lottery
Five Songs That Sound Like They’re About Women (But Aren’t)
The Five Most Important Smooches in the Universe
Five Oddly Specific Museums Preserving Our History
