The Utterly, Completely, and Totally Useless Science Fact-o-pedia: A Startling Collection of Scientific Trivia You’ll Never Need to Know

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Steve Kanaras. The Utterly, Completely, and Totally Useless Science Fact-o-pedia: A Startling Collection of Scientific Trivia You’ll Never Need to Know

Contents

Introduction

Amino Acids

Antioxidants

“A” Phobias

Apollo 11

Apples

Asian. Longhorned Beetles

Aspirin

Asteroids

Axolotls

Bacteria

Big Bang Theory

Black Holes

Blood

Brain

Brasswinds

Buckyballs

Butterflies and Moths

Butterflies versus Moths

Carbon

Chocolate

Cholesterol

Colloidal Silver

Comets

Computers

Corals

Coriolis Effect

DNA

Dodo Birds

Dogwood Trees

Dolphins

Dust Devils

Dwarf Planets

Earth

Earthquakes

Echinoderms

Electricity

Energy

Exercise

Floods

Flowers

Four Forces of Flight

Freezer Burn

Frilled-Necked Lizards

Frogs

Fungi, Pathogenic

Fungi, Poisonous

Garlic

Gemstones

Geomagnetism

G-Force

Giant Clams

Ginkgo Biloba

Gold

Great Lakes, Africa

Group Names

Group Names

Hair

Head-Bobbing Birds

Health and Music

Heart

Hippocampus

Horses

Human Hands

Hurricanes

Hydrogen

International Morse Code

Internet

Invasive Species: The Burmese Python

Iodine

Ionosphere

IQ

Jacobson’s Organ

Jazz

Jellyfish

Joint Cracking

Joints

Jumping Genes

Jupiter

Jurassic Park “Easter Egg”

K

K2

Kakapos

Kiwi Birds

Kiwi Fruit

Komodo Dragons

Krebs Cycle

Krypton

K-T Extinction

Lake Baikal

Landslides

Latitude

Lead

Lichtenberg, Georg Christoph

Lightning

Liver

Longitude

Mars

Marsupials

Mendacity

Mercury

Metal Alloys

Meteoroids, Meteors, and Meteorites

Monotremes

Moon

Moon Names

Neptune

Neurons

Nobel Prize

Northern Lights: History

Northern Lights: How It Happens

Northern Lights: Legend and Lore

Nuclear Energy

Nuclear Fission

Nuclear Fusion

Nuts

Oceans: Blue, Green, and Brown

Octopus

Oenology

Olfactory System

Ophidiophobes’ Nightmare

Orange Roughy

Organic

Owls

Pacific Ocean

Pathogens

Photodegradation: Why Sunlight Fades Sofas

Pinnipeds

Polynya

Protostars

Purring

Q Fever

Quasars

Quillworts

Quitting Smoking Benefits

Quokka

Radiocarbon Dating

Raining: Fish and Frogs

Raspberries

Reefs

Reptiles

Robots

Rogue Waves

Roller Coasters: History and Fun Facts

Roller Coasters: Physics

Saturn

Sea Lions

Silver

Smallpox. Vaccine History

Solar Energy

Sun

Sunspots

Syzygy

Telegraph

Thunder

Titan Arum

Tornadoes

Tsunamis

Tuatara

Turing, Alan

Twinkle, Twinkle, Little, Big, and Spinning Stars

Ultraviolet (UV) Rays

Ungulates

Universe

Untruths, Truthiness, and Just Plain False

Uranus

Vanadium

Variola Virus

Venus

V-Formation

Vipers

Volcanoes

Water

Water Cycle

Weta

Whales

Wildfires

Wines

Wood Storks

World Wide Web

Xenobiology

Xenon

X-Ray

Xylocopa Violacea

Xylotoles Costatus

Yams

Yawning

Yellow-Bellied

Yellow Fever

Yoga

Yogurt

Yutyrannus Huali

Zoetropes

Zombie Ants

Zombie Computers

Zombie Etiquette

Zombies

Zoonosis

Zooxanthellae

Zymurgy

Bibliography

Acknowledgments

About the Author

About the Illustrators

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• That said, I think it’s safe to say that syntax error or no syntax error, Neil Armstrong’s famous Moon landing statement resonates as an amazing, beautiful, life-changing, brilliant moment in the history of not just the United States, but for all humanity.

• Apples are members of the rose family.

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