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Your Pinkie Is More Powerful Than Your Thumb - by Mark Di Vincenzo (Paperback)
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Highlights
- 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.
- Author(s): Mark Di Vincenzo
- 256 Pages
- Reference, Curiosities & Wonders
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About the Book
From the bestselling author of "Buy Ketchup in May" and "Fly at Noon" comes a book of little-known, surprising facts that includes tips that will help readers save more money, make more money, and live smarter.Book Synopsis
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.
From the Back Cover
Why are recessions not all bad? (pg. 51)
Which Major League Baseball team keeps its baseballs in a humidor--and why? (pg. 123)
Why is 300 cents more than 3 dollars? (pg. 49)
Mark Di Vincenzo, author of the New York Times bestseller Buy Ketchup in May and Fly at Noon, returns with more fascinating facts! Do you know:
(1) what percentage of doctors in China smoke?
(2) which is the most dangerous day of the year to drive a car?
(3) whether a heart can literally break?
(4) how much investors paid for a Canadian cow named Missy?
Within these pages you'll find tips and facts that will save you money, help you live healthier, and make you the most interesting person to talk to at any party.
Review Quotes
"Fun . . . irresistible . . . something to get your fingers on." -- Long Island Pulse
"Amazing tidbits . . . explained in delicious detail . . . [a] clever, candid and comprehensive smorgasbord of fascinating factoids guaranteed to make you, as the cover promises, 'wealthier, healthier and smarter than everyone else.'" -- Suwannee Democrat (Florida)
"Reading that not only fills you with little-known trivia, but often information about how to save money and improve one-self. Concise and always interesting." -- New Jersey magazine
"Di Vincenzo is ready to wow readers with some truly odd, head-shaking tidbits . . . Don't expect ho-hum kinds of stories here... oh no. Di Vincenzo . . . [brings] incredible little-known facts to light. ...a fun and often surprising read." -- 5minutesforbooks.com
"Offers a plethora of fascinating and random facts . . . Armed with facts from Di Vincenzo's book, you could easily become the life of your next party." -- Deseret News