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title = "Answers to Questions You’ve Never Asked: Explaining the What If in Science, Geography and the Absurd - Joseph Pisenti"
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date = 2018-12-04
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[GoodReads summary](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36049427-answers-to-questions-you-ve-never-asked):
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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.
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Another trivia book. And this one is... weird.
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Instead of coming directly with trivia, the book focus on the *history*
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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?
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Also, the last 1/3 of the book is devoted to American presidents, which is
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interesting... if you're American.
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(And yes, I know I'm picky about this kind of stuff, but some one *has* to
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be, right?)
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