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Black People Invented Everything: The Deep History of Indigenous Creativity
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /Who Invented the traffic light? What about transportation itself? Farming? Art? Modern chemistry? Who made?Cats? What if I told you there was ONE a...
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Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise?: An Imponderables Book
PaperbackOriginal price $12.99 - Original price $12.99Original price $12.99$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /Ponder, if you will ...What is the difference between a kit and a caboodle?Why don't people get goose bumps on their faces?Where do houseflies go...
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Extraordinary Origins of Everyday Things
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /For lovers of facts, students of popular culture, history buffs, and science enthusiasts, the fascinating stories behind 500 everyday items, expr...
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I Never Knew That About London
HardcoverOriginal price $35.99Original price $35.99 - Original price $35.99Original price $35.99Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /In this lavishly illustrated book bestselling author Christopher Winn takes you on a captivating journey around London. Traveling through the vil...
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Learn Something New Every Day: 365 Facts to Fulfill Your Life
HardcoverOriginal price $33.99Original price $33.99 - Original price $33.99Original price $33.99Current price $28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /Learn something new with 366 fascinating facts from NPR librarian Kee MaleskyWhat was the greatest thing before sliced bread? 1 What color did ca...
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Do Penguins Have Knees?: An Imponderables Book
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /The fifth book in David Feldman’s bestselling Imponderables® series, packed with even more answers to perplexing questions and solutions to every...
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Do Elephants Jump?
PaperbackOriginal price $15.99 - Original price $15.99Original price $15.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /The tenth book in David Feldman’s bestselling Imponderables® series, packed with even more answers to perplexing questions and solutions to every...
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When Do Fish Sleep?: An Imponderables Book
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /When Do Fish Sleep? is the third book in David Feldman’s best-selling Imponderables™ series, packed with answers to perplexing questions and solu...
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The Big Book of Facts
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Strange science facts! Hilarious history facts! Informative and Fun! A treat of science and history stories and trivia that will inform and enter...
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Ever Wonder Why?: Here Are the Answers!
PaperbackOriginal price $6.99 - Original price $6.99Original price $6.99$9.99$9.99 - $9.99Current price $9.99| /"Why?" is the first question we learn to ask as children and the one our parents have the hardest time answering. This is because "Why?" is the m...
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Cults, Conspiracies, and Secret Societies: The Straight Scoop on Freemasons, The Illuminati, Skull and Bones, Black Helicopters, The New World Order, and Many, Many More
PaperbackOriginal price $19.00Original price $19.00 - Original price $19.00Original price $19.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Did you know?• Freemasonry's first American lodge included a young Benjamin Franklin among its members. • The Knights Templar began as impoverish...
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Atlas of Improbable Places: A Journey to the World's Most Unusual Corners
PaperbackOriginal price $15.00 - Original price $15.00Original price $15.00$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /‘This engrossing book traverses the heights and depths, the beauty and terror, of our world.’ - THE OBSERVER Travis Elborough goes in search of...
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Werewolves, Dogmen, and Other Shapeshifters Stalking North America
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Have you ever been driving, alone, at night, and know that what you saw along the side of the road was not human? Do you ever wonder just what wa...
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Bees Make the Best Pets: All the Buzz about Being Resilient, Collaborative, Industrious, Generous, and Sweet-Straight from the Hive (Beekeeping
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /All the Buzz for Beekeeping Beginners"The book oozes with bee facts and trivia....Bees do make good pets and this book is a gentle introduction to ...
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The Book of Phobias and Manias: A History of Obsession
HardcoverOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /From the winner of the Edgar Award and the Samuel Johnson Prize, a cultural history of "everyday madness" The Book of Phobias and Manias is a thril...
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The Labyrinth of Curiosities: Journey Through Hundreds of Wild Facts and Fascinating Trivia--And Their Surprising Connections!
HardcoverOriginal price $22.99Original price $22.99 - Original price $22.99Original price $22.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /The perfect gift for your smartest friends and family (or you), The Labyrinth of Curiosities is a maze of 400 pages of trivia where each factoid an...
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The Huge Book of Amazing Facts and Interesting Stuff 2023: Mind-Blowing Trivia Facts on Science, Music, History + More for Curious Minds
HardcoverOriginal price $23.99 - Original price $23.99Original price $23.99$27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /"Be More Interesting"Already in its seventh edition, Jenny Kellett brings you her bestselling HUGE Book of Amazing Facts, updated for 2023. Chock-f...
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Nature Anatomy: The Curious Parts and Pieces of the Natural World
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /See the world in a whole new way Acclaimed illustrator Julia Rothman combines art and science in this exciting and educational guide to the struct...
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Stuff You Should Know: An Incomplete Compendium of Mostly Interesting Things
HardcoverOriginal price $27.99Original price $27.99 - Original price $27.99Original price $27.99Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /From the duo behind the massively successful and award-winning podcast Stuff You Should Know comes an unexpected look at things you thought you kne...
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Stuff They Don't Want You to Know
HardcoverOriginal price $29.99Original price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /"Interesting...Bowlin's calmly rational approach to the subject of conspiracy theories shows the importance of logic and evidence."--Booklist "A pa...
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A Short History of the World in 50 Lies
HardcoverOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Taking readers on a global journey through human history, historian Natasha Tidd examines how lies can change the world around us, from Julius Caes...
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The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /A NEW YORK TIMES, WASHINGTON POST, USA TODAY, AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BESTSELLER "[A] diverse and enlightening book . . . The 99% Invisible City is ...
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Daily Rituals: How Artists Work
HardcoverOriginal price $25.95Original price $25.95 - Original price $25.95Original price $25.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /More than 150 inspired--and inspiring--novelists, poets, playwrights, painters, philosophers, scientists, and mathematicians on how they subtly man...
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Brilliant Bathroom Reader (Mensa(r)): 5,000 Facts from the Smartest Brand in the World
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /American Mensa presents: The Brilliant Bathroom Reader--The ultimate book of 5,000 facts curated by the world's smartest brand. Perfect to expand a...
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