Your Pinkie Is More Powerful Than Your Thumb

Mark 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.

This must-read compendium of trivia answers the questions you’d never think to ask:

• Quirky Trivia: Discover why your pinkie is more powerful than your thumb, how many strands of hair you lose every day, and whether it’s better to count sheep or visualize a babbling brook to fall asleep.
• Popular Science: Uncover the scientific reasons a heart can literally break, why stress might make your hair go gray, and what your inability to touch your toes says about your arteries.
• Historical Oddities: Find out what Adolf Hitler was really like at the dinner table, why the world’s oldest mummies had clogged arteries, and the shocking link between Abraham Lincoln and the Secret Service.
• Did You Know Facts: Learn which job in science is the happiest, what you could get in a trade for a woolly mammoth, and why hospitals are so worried about doctors’ neckties.