Your Pinkie Is More Powerful Than Your Thumb

And 333 Other Surprising Facts That Will Make You Wealthier, Healthier and Smarter Than Everyone Else

Description

Mark Di Vincenzo, the New York Times bestselling author of Buy Ketchup in May and Fly at Noon, brings us another book of fascinating, eminently useful facts certain to make you healthier, wealthier, and wiser. Readers of Schott’s Miscellany and other compendiums of helpful information will delight—and profit—from these little known tidbits about health, money, food, death, bugs, politics, history, geography, and more or less everything under the sun.


This must-read compendium of trivia answers the questions you’d never think to ask:


  • Quirky Trivia: Discover why your pinkie is more powerful than your thumb, how many strands of hair you lose every day, and whether it’s better to count sheep or visualize a babbling brook to fall asleep.
  • Popular Science: Uncover the scientific reasons a heart can literally break, why stress might make your hair go gray, and what your inability to touch your toes says about your arteries.
  • Historical Oddities: Find out what Adolf Hitler was really like at the dinner table, why the world’s oldest mummies had clogged arteries, and the shocking link between Abraham Lincoln and the Secret Service.
  • Did You Know Facts: Learn which job in science is the happiest, what you could get in a trade for a woolly mammoth, and why hospitals are so worried about doctors’ neckties.

About the author(s)

As a journalist with nearly a quarter century of experience, Mark Di Vincenzo made a name for himself as a reporter who exposed abuses and as a writer who made the complicated seem simple. He won numerous awards before becoming an editor.

During the summer of 2007, he left daily journalism to pursue book projects and to start Business Writers Group, a writing and public relations company. In 2009, Harper-Collins published his first book, Buy Ketchup in May and Fly At Noon: A Guide to the Best Time to Buy This, Do That and Go There, a New York Times bestseller.

Born and reared in Cleveland, he lives in the shipyard town of Newport News, Virginia—two blocks from William Styron’s childhood home—with his wife and two daughters. A third daughter attends the University of Oklahoma.

Reviews

“Reading that not only fills you with little-known trivia, but often information about how to save money and improve one-self. Concise and always interesting.” - New Jersey magazine

“[Di Vincenzo] doles out advice with practical reasoning . . . [U]seful and interesting.” - Cleveland Plain Dealer

“Sure to liven up a boring cocktail party . . . [W]ill enlighten, surprise, even disappoint you.” - Houston Chronicle

“The breezy little paperback offers hundreds of tips from the former investigative reporter, whose research is evident and sources carefully listed at the end. That keeps the attribution from cluttering up the info, which ranges from sublime to silly.” - Los Angeles Times/Travel blog

“Fun . . . irresistible . . . something to get your fingers on.” - Long Island Pulse

“Amazing tidbits . . . explained in delicious detail . . . [a] clever, candid and comprehensive smorgasbord of fascinating factoids guaranteed to make you, as the cover promises, ‘wealthier, healthier and smarter than everyone else.’” - Suwannee Democrat (Florida)

“Di Vincenzo is ready to wow readers with some truly odd, head-shaking tidbits . . . Don’t expect ho-hum kinds of stories here… oh no. Di Vincenzo . . . [brings] incredible little-known facts to light. ...a fun and often surprising read.” - 5minutesforbooks.com

“Offers a plethora of fascinating and random facts . . . Armed with facts from Di Vincenzo’s book, you could easily become the life of your next party.” - Deseret News

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