Do you have a curious mind? Do you enjoy learning obscure facts? Are you the kind of person that will obsess about that one crazy thing you learned for days? If you answered "Yes" to any of these questions, then this is the book for you.

Welcome to Fantastic Factoids for the Insanely Curious: a collection of strange, but true, and often unheard-of facts that will blow your mind. Contained within this book are some of the most unusual, strangest, and sometimes completely absurd facts that you've likely never heard. There are 41 themes and over 150 thought provoking and captivating illustrations designed to get the reader's attention and stimulate conversation.

Each chapter of this book will expose the reader to a new set of facts. Whether you want to read about civilizations, empires, historical figures, inventions, animals, legends, folklore, or space you'll find it, and much more inside.

Fantastic Factoids was designed for families as a source of entertainment and education and can be enjoyed by readers from 10 to 100 years old. Unlike other books of this genre, Fantastic Factoids has selected as its chapter topics subject matter that will surely peak the readers interest and will build on subjects that have likely been taught or will soon be learned in school. Simply put, our goal in choosing factoids was to encourage further reading and foster a desire for the reader to delve deeper into the topics with some independent research.

Feel free to pick and choose chapters to read based on your own interests. This book is not like a novel that requires you to read it from cover to cover. Instead, this book is meant to be read any which way you want. Whether it be from cover to cover or piecemeal. The factoids are brief, concise, and one of a kind. Each factoid title is in BOLD and allows for the reader to decide whether the factoid title peaks their desire to read further. Simply skip around until you find a chapter that seems appealing or a few factoid titles that become "must reads" based on the title alone. Here's some examples:

Pigeon-guided missiles: Both the Allied and Central Powers... The Amazonian Yara-Ma-Yha-Who: The Yara-Ma-Yha-Who is a mythical creature... The Mothman Prophecies: In the 1960s, residents of Point Pleasant... The Salem Witch Trials: In 1692, the Massachusetts Bay Colony... The Throwing of Babies: In the town of Castillo de Murcia...

We've been told that this book is like going on a different intellectual journey every time you pick it up. Whether you read it at home in the living room, bedroom, or bathroom this book will make for an ideal companion that is sure to keep you entertained, engaged, and curious. Share it with your friends, family, teachers, and classmates. Take it to the beach, the pool, on long road trips or on an airplane. Whichever way you choose to enjoy our book we guarantee for certain one thing, and one thing only. You will get smarter having read it!