Improbably True: 250 Weird Facts, Properly Explained (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798177920320)

Hot water that freezes faster than cold. A patch of India inside Bangladesh inside India inside Bangladesh. A jellyfish that grows young again. Sharks that are older than trees.

Most "weird facts" books give you a thousand one-liners and leave you wondering which of them are actually true. Improbably True does the opposite: 250 of the strangest facts in science, history, maths and geography, each with a full page of explanation and an honest verdict stamp (TRUE, TRUE-ISH, CONTESTED or BUSTED), so you know exactly how far to trust it.

• Ten departments: physics, chemistry, the body and brain, life and evolution, Earth, space, numbers, history, language and the mind, and world records
• Popular myths busted, not repeated
• Every fact checked against solid sources, printed on the page
• Each fact linked to the school syllabus topic it explains, with a Syllabus Finder at the back
• Plenty of India: C. V. Raman's sea voyage, the Delhi iron pillar, Kerala's forgotten calculus, the purple frog and more

Part fun read, part reference book, for curious minds aged 16 and up. Volume 1 of a continuing series.