{"product_id":"your-pinkie-is-more-powerful-than-your-thumb-and-333-other-surprising-facts-that-will-make-you-wealthier-healthier-and-smarter-than-everyone-else-isbn-9780062008350","title":"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":"\u003cp\u003eMark 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat surprising truths are hiding in plain sight?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eCounterintuitive Facts:\u003c\/b\u003e Find out why counting sheep doesn’t work, how bad bosses can actually hurt your heart, and why your pinkie is responsible for half your hand strength.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eSurprising Science:\u003c\/b\u003e Uncover the science behind why some male fish also produce female eggs, how geckos are inspiring a new kind of super-adhesive, and what your dreams really say about your body—not your mind.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eWeird History:\u003c\/b\u003e Learn what newly declassified documents reveal about Hitler’s dinner habits and why archaeologists now believe Neanderthals wore makeup and jewelry.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eHealth and Money Tips:\u003c\/b\u003e Get practical, evidence-based advice, from the real reason you can’t touch your toes to how much someone actually paid for a cow named Missy ($1.2 million).\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e | \u003cp\u003eWhy are recessions not all bad? (pg. 51)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhich Major League Baseball team keeps its baseballs in a humidor—and why? (pg. 123)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhy is 300 cents more than 3 dollars? (pg. 49)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMark Di Vincenzo, author of the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestseller \u003cem\u003eBuy Ketchup in May and Fly at Noon\u003c\/em\u003e, returns with more fascinating facts!  Do you know:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cblockquote\u003e\u003cp\u003e(1) what percentage of doctors in China smoke?\u003cbr\u003e(2) which is the most dangerous day of the year to drive a car?\u003cbr\u003e(3) whether a heart can literally break? \u003cbr\u003e(4) how much investors paid for a Canadian cow named Missy?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\u003cp\u003eWithin these pages you'll find tips and facts that will save you money, help you live healthier, and make you the most interesting person to talk to at any party. \u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e“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.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew Jersey magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[Di Vincenzo] doles out advice with practical reasoning . . . [U]seful and interesting.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCleveland Plain Dealer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Sure to liven up a boring cocktail party . . . [W]ill enlighten, surprise, even disappoint you.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHouston Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“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.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\/Travel blog\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Fun . . . irresistible . . . something to get your fingers on.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLong Island Pulse\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Amazing tidbits . . . explained in delicious detail . . . 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