Author: Wendy Leonard, PhD, MPH
Did you know that cacao beans are actually seeds (not beans) from the cacao tree? Technically speaking, this makes chocolate a fruit! Did you know that a single ounce of gold can be stretched into a wire more than 5 miles (8 km) long? Did you know that dolphins sleep with only half their brain at a time? The Utterly, Completely, and Totally Useless Science Fact-O-Pedia is the ideal book for the intellectually curious mind. Loaded with nearly 2,000 fun facts and lots of fun comics and illustrations , this encyclopedia will arm you with hundreds of useless (and not so useless!) scient