To me, it seems almost written as if each fact were a clickbait article, and the author wanted to put enough fluff in there to stretch three sentences of information into twenty clicks. There are lots of "there's more to this than you might ever have imagined" and "scientists decided to go ahead and find out whether that was true", and that sort of thing. But in this book the author has the most roundabout, awkward way of writing I've ever seen, and ends up using a lot of fluff sentences to add bulk to each fact without adding much of value. The subtitle for this book is "The Crazy Stories Behind the World's Most Interesting Facts," so discussing each fact with a few supporting paragraphs is to be expected (whether the facts are the world's most interesting is subjective though). So those are the good things about this book. The book consisted of a collection of random facts, randomly arranged, which is exactly what I expected based on the title. I was already aware of several of the facts presented, but there were several facts in there I genuinely hadn't heard before. I really like to learn strange facts and miscellaneous general knowledge, so this book should have been right up my alley. With The Fun Knowledge Encyclopedia, you never know what you'll learn. Be that person that knows all about the history of Lincoln and his close scrape in a duel, or how Hitler managed to deal with the tax man. Be that person that always knows that trivia or understands the way of the world and why we do certain things. With curiosities galore, and puzzles solved, each page has something new and astounding with facts and tales that you will just want to share with anybody that will listen. Covering countries far and wide and various time spans, you are going to be taken on a journey that will further expand your own knowledge on all things connected to being a human being. This encyclopedia of facts is going to allow you to delve deeper into the world of humanity than you ever thought possible, and we will throw in some facts about the animal kingdom as well. Why exactly is that gorilla looking so lazy? How much would you pay for a lipstick? Why does the term deadline have such a deadly meaning behind it? If so, then this is the audiobook for you. Are you the kind of individual that loves a good, juicy fact? Are you the type of person that always wants to know where something comes from or why we use a particular phrase?
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