A feast of fun oddities

Take a weird and wonderful tour of the every branch of science from Earth’s weight gain thanks to the many tons of cosmic dust that falls on the planet each year to William A. Mitchell (1911–2004), the inventor of Tang, Cool Whip, and Pop Rocks candy. In this compilation of the educational, profound, and trivial, you’ll learn about yourself and the world through hundreds of absorbing stories and interesting tidbits such as…

•    Sixteen million men—about 0.2 percent of the world's population—carry genetic material traced back to Genghis Khan.

•    Under the right conditions, some dogs—the super-scenters—can smell you some 12 miles away.

•    The body of Marie Curie (1867-1934), the physicist who discovered radium, is still radioactive.

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