This latest romp through history, politics, religion, and science from
the dyno-duo Barrett and Mingo is sure to tickle the fancy of trivia
buffs everywhere. Amuse your date, impress your boss, bore your kids, or
be the 6th caller to win a pair of tickets to the nose-flute band
concert All because you know that a Twinkie in the microwave will
explode in 45 seconds, that you have a 1 in 3,448,276 chance of dying
from a snake bite, that 342 cases of tea were tossed into the "hahbah"
during the Boston Tea Party or that white rhinoceroses are not actually
white but grey (you'll have to read the book to discover why). Barrett
and Mingo, partners in life and crime (er, writing) can do a thing or
two with random facts, and this book ranks right up there. From the time
the Wallace family made famous books of lists of one kind or another,
readers have found fascination--or maybe just food for their
obsessions--in books like Random Kinds of Factness.