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For ten years, we have been hunting and trapping the world’s rarest facts, locking them into captivating lists for the world to admire. Thanks to tireless efforts, mental_floss: The Book is packed with a decade’s worth of the smartest, quirkiest stories around, including:

• Five Presidential Fashion Flubs
• Seven Shameless Abuses of Diplomatic Immunity
• Five Units of Measurement Weirder Than the Metric System
• Four Toys That Have Gone to War for America
• Seven Reasons Mister Rogers Was the Best Neighbor Ever
• Five Things Your Body Can Do After You Die
• Six of Baseball’s Strangest Trades
• Four Foods People Actually Die For
• Seven Things Walmart Has Banned
• Four TV Shows That Changed the Course of History
• Ten “Q” Words That Aren’t “Q-U” Words
• Four Horrifying Parasites to Keep You Awake at Night
• Eight Fake Archaeological Finds
• Five Articles of Clothing That Caused Riots
• Four Memorable Moments in Cross-Dressing History
• Five Doomsdays We’ve Already Survived

And 124 Other Extraordinary Lists!

Paperback. 320 pages.

$17.99