The Big Book of Useless Science Knowledge: 250 of the Coolest, Weirdest, and Most Unbelievable Science Facts You Won’t be Taught in School (Useless Knowledge) Lawrence Schimel National Book Award finalist for

National Book Award finalist for The Soul of an Octopus and New York Times bestseller Sy Montgomery turns her journalistic curiosity to the wonder and wisdom of our long-lived cohabitants—turtles—and through their stories of hope and rescue

As one of the ship’s detectives

But as they begin to establish residency on an abandoned planet

and playing like a girl

his once unbreakable bond with Zoey really starts to crack

The Big Book of Useless Science Knowledge: 250 of the Coolest, Weirdest, and Most Unbelievable Science Facts You Won’t be Taught in School (Useless Knowledge) Lawrence Schimel National Book Award finalist forAn encyclopedia of mind bogglingly random science facts that will lodge in your brain and refuse to leave. Heard about the poisonous tree in the Amazon rainforest that grows exploding fruit? Did you know that manatees control their buoyancy with farts? Or that the first vending machine was invented in ancient Egypt? In this compendium of obscure facts readers will be treated to baffling scientific knowledge they would never learn at school. Broken