1,411 Quite Interesting Facts to Knock You Sideways is a gold mine of wide-ranging, eye-opening, brain-bursting nuggets of trivia that's impossible to put down, another "treasure trove of factoids" (National Public Radio, Weekend Edition).

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Orchids can get jet lag
Lizards can't walk and breathe at the same time
Frank Sinatra took a shower 12 times a day
Ladybug orgasms last for 30 minutes
There are 177,147 ways to tie a tie
Traffic lights existed before cars
The soil in your garden is 2 million years old