You won't find pages of lifeless one-liners here. Instead, you'll get short, punchy stories behind the facts. Want to know who tried to escape prison by mailing themselves in a box? Or how someone survived the longest elevator plunge ever?

Thirty-three bite-sized chapters packed with stories, surprises, and a splash of peanut butter. Anyone can drop a stat like: 600 million jars of peanut butter are sold each year. But Dom wants to know why that matters. What's the story behind it?

Instead of just telling you that the tallest building is in Dubai, this book will tell you why time moves differently at the top of it, and what that means for your wrinkles. (Yep, general relativity has entered the chat.)