Futility Closet: A Curious Collection of Entertaining Trivia & Amusing Oddities - Perfect for Book Lovers, Gift Givers & Coffee Table Display
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Futility Closet: A Curious Collection of Entertaining Trivia & Amusing Oddities - Perfect for Book Lovers, Gift Givers & Coffee Table Display
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For nearly two decades the popular website Futility Closet has collected arresting curiosities in history, literature, language, art, philosophy, and mathematics. This book presents some of the best: pipe-smoking robots, clairvoyant pennies, zoo jailbreaks, literary cannibals, corned beef in space, revolving squirrels, disappearing Scottish lighthouse keepers, reincarnated pussycats, dueling Churchills, horse spectacles, onrushing molasses, and hundreds more. Plus the obscure words, odd inventions, puzzles and paradoxes that have made the website a quirky favorite with millions of readers -- hundreds of examples of the marvelous, the diverting, and the strange, now in a portable format to occupy your idle hours.
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Reading the entries in "Futility Closet" is like eating a bag of sweets. You keep telling yourself, "Okay, one more and I'll stop." Before you know it, that "one more" has turned into a couple dozen more.The real charm to the book isn't just in how clever and fascinating each entry is, it's the fact that you never know what the next entry will be about. A historical oddity will be followed by strange scientific fact, which will then be followed by a mind-bending riddle, which will be followed by a bizarre excerpt from a 19th Century newspaper article.It's a great, fun read that will never leave you bored. I highly recommend it!
