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The Book of Origins: Discover the Amazing Origins of the Clothes We Wear, the Food We Eat, the People We Know, the Languages We Speak, and the Things We Use
Trevor Homer
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Everything?from the mundane (the pencil) to the catastrophic (the atom bomb)?has an origin, but often it?s not what we expect. A few things you may not have known:
? Gandhi was married at age thirteen!
? Chinese fortune cookies are an American invention and were not eaten in China until the 1990s when they were advertised as ?Genuine American Fortune Cookies.?
? Bayer lost the trademark for aspirin (which they had held since 1897) as part of the reparations Germany was forced to pay after World War I.
? The original idea for the electric chair came from an American dentist.
For aspiring mindblowers and wanna-be know-it-alls, The Book of Origins is a treasure trove of trivia and fascinating facts guaranteed to entertain and enlighten.
| Medios de comunicación | Libros Paperback Book (Libro con tapa blanda y lomo encolado) |
| Publicado | 1 de junio de 2007 |
| ISBN13 | 9780452288324 |
| Editores | Plume |
| Páginas | 307 |
| Dimensiones | 137 × 204 × 18 mm · 267 g |
| Lengua | Inglés |
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