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Jonn Elledge
Compendium of (Not Quite) Everything [EPUB ebook]
All the Facts You Didn’t Know You Wanted to Know

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The Compendium of (Not Quite) Everything is a treasure trove of random knowledge. Covering everything from the furthest known galaxies to the murky origins of oyster ice cream, inside you will find a discussion of how one might determine the most average-sized country in the world; details of humanity’s most ridiculous wars; and, at last, the answer to who would win in a fight between Harry Potter and Spider-Man.Bizarre, brilliant and filled with the unexpected, The Compendium covers the breadth and depth of human experience, weaving its way through words and numbers, science and the arts, the spiritual and the secular. It’s a feast of facts for a hungry mind.Includes entries on the cosmos, the human planet, questions of measurement, history/politics, the natural world, leisure and many ‘oddities’ that don’t fit elsewhere…

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Language English ● Format EPUB ● ISBN 9781472276483 ● Publisher Headline ● Published 2021 ● Downloadable 3 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 7912660 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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