Books | Education on ill-formed Facts and their Causes
Compendium of misconceptions comprising of scientific, historical and small-talk knowledge.
Frequent trivia related faux-pas, tabbed from BBC's Quite Interesting panel series.
If excerpting cartographer Amerigo Vespucci as baptizer of America or champagne being invented by Gauls, maybe that Bangkok is surely Thailand's capital, well.. guess again!
If George Washington resides as first U.S. President in everyone's mind, that Graeme Bell is with certainty inventor of the telephone and considering blue whales as largest critters on our Globe, this book is for bettering these things learned.
When whisky and the bagpipes are known to be of Scottish origin, and Everest stands as highest peak above the vapors, there are a couple of hundred reasons in these pages, that might interest the agree to disagree debaters.
The Book of Ignorance, an outside the masquerade, limited treaty for the proletariat that know... they don't know.