title: Random Kinds Of Factness: 1001 (or So) Absolutely True Tidbits About (mostly) Everything
author:  Erin Barrett 
description: Erin Barrett and Jack Mingo have authored 20 books, including How the Cadillac Got Its Fins, The Couch Potato Guide to Life and the best-selling Just Curious Jeeves. They have written articles for many major periodicals including The New York Times, Salon, Reader's Digest, and The Washington Post and have generated more than 30,000 questions for trivia games and game shows such as Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?. Their website, which lists their "This Day in History" nationally-syndicated column.
zlib_text: Random Kinds of 
  FACTNESS
  
  Random Kinds of 
  FACTNESS
  1001
  (or So) 
  Absolutely True Tidbits 
  About (Mostly) Everything
  ERIN BARRETT AND JACK MINGO
  
  First published in 2005 by Conari Press,
  an imprint of Red Wheel/Weiser, LLC
  York Beach, ME
  With offices at:
  368 Congress Street
  Boston, MA 02210
  www.redwheelweiser.com
  Copyright © 2005 Erin Barrett and Jack Mingo
  All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced 
  or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical,
  including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage 
  and retrieval system, without permission in writing from 
  Red Wheel/Weiser, LLC. Reviewers may quote brief passages.
  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
  Barrett, Erin.
  Random kinds of factness : 1001 (or so) absolutely true tidbits about
  (mostly) everything / Erin Barrett and Jack Mingo.
  p. cm.
  ISBN 1-57324-212-8 (alk. paper)
  1.  Curiosities and wonders.  I. Title: 1001 (or so) absolutely true
  tidbits about (mostly) 