Armchair Digest: The Extraordinary Book of Information

The Extraordinary Book of Information, from the popular Armchair Digest series, is a treasure trove of stories, interviews, hilarious trivia, quotes, timelines, and astounding facts. The information is culled from thousands of sources and pulled together in one handy volume.

Here is a sampling of the fascinating facts in The Extraordinary Book of Information:

In some parts of Italy, people savor a worm-filled cheese called casu marzu.
Sand tiger shark eggs hatch in one of two chambers in the womb. The shark embryos eat each other until there are only two survivors -- one in each chamber.
On the Micronesian island of Yap, people once used 12-foot limestone coins as money.
President John Quincy Adams started each summer day with a skinny dip in the Potomac River.
Tokyo subways and train stations employee large men called oshiya ( pushers ) to cram people into crowded cars.

Open to any page of The Extraordinary Book of Information and you ll find something amazing that you didn t know.