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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me"><h1>Julio Biason .Me 4.3</h1></a>
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<p class="lead">Old school dev living in a 2.0 dev world</p>
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<h1 class="post-title">Answers to Questions You’ve Never Asked: Explaining the What If in Science, Geography and the Absurd - Joseph Pisenti</h1>
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2018-12-04
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/books/">#books</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/trivia/">#trivia</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/joseph-pisenti/">#joseph pisenti</a>
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<p><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36049427-answers-to-questions-you-ve-never-asked">GoodReads summary</a>:
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Fun facts for kids of all ages: When you take the most absurd parts of history,
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science, economics and geography, you end up with a pretty confusing picture of
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humanity. Why do we have borders, what’s the furthest you can get from the
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ocean, how do you qualify as a country and why did Vikings wear those silly
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helmets? These are just a few of the strange questions that bounce around the
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head of YouTube sensation Joseph Pisenti, aka RealLifeLore.</p>
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★★★☆☆
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<p>Another trivia book. And this one is... weird.</p>
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<p>Instead of coming directly with trivia, the book focus on the <em>history</em>
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behind the fact (e.g., the size of the Roman Empire is giving talking about the
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annexed countries). On the other hand, the way to get to the history is
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strange, to say the least: How many countries today would encompass the Roman
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Empire, if it didn't fall?</p>
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<p>Also, the last 1/3 of the book is devoted to American presidents, which is
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interesting... if you're American.</p>
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<p>(And yes, I know I'm picky about this kind of stuff, but some one <em>has</em> to
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be, right?)</p>
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