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I love the Time Magazine Almanacs. I'm always looking up facts, and it's actually quicker than turning on the computer and going online to look it up. These books are updated every year.
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I'm always looking up random stuff on a whim, when I hear about something on TV, or if an idea just pops into my head for no reason at all.
I love the Time Magazine Almanacs. I'm always looking up facts, and it's actually quicker than turning on the computer and going online to look it up. These books are updated every year.
Want to immediately know who the US Senators are from Alaska?
Want to immediately know who Millard Filmore's Vice President was?
Want to immediately know the primary religion in Ghana?
Want to immediately know which horse won the Triple Crown in 1973?
I'm always looking up random stuff on a whim, when I hear about something on TV, or if an idea just pops into my head for no reason at all.
Me too!!!!
I love reading almanacs!
The Time Magazine Almanac is good but I prefer "The World Almanac And Book Of Facts." Every Christmas my brother buys me the current edition. I love looking up population facts, facts and figures about countries, presidential election results by state and county, data about the economy, current Nobel Prize winners, and the list goes on, ad infinitum. There is so much useless (and not so useless) information jam packed into about a thousand pages. Awesome bathroom reading!
Also, it allows me to know a little bit about a lot of things. For example, if I ever run across a person from the country of Palau, I could start a conversation with them by mentioning that I would love to learn Sonsorolese, which is one of the languages spoken by the people of Palau.
The David Feldman books veer toward humorous trivia -- but things you wonder about anyway. Like the title of one book, "When do fish sleep?" and of another, "Do penguins have knees?" (The books aren't all animal-oriented, tho!) He has several books out.
I was always looking up facts in there, before I moved on to mom's set of Funk & Wagnalls encyclopedias and year books. As a kid, the things I looked up always had to do with animals. Now it's all sorts of random stuff I MUST know immediately.
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