Oddly Informative

Matters of fact that amaze and delight

By: Tom Standage

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Paperback | 20 January 2022

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The latest edition in the Economist Explainer series, edited and introduced by Deputy Editor Tom Standage.

The more we ponder, the odder the world can seem.

Why are coups making a comeback?
What counts as a journey into space?
Which countries cheat the most in athletics?
Is the tale of the difficult second novel fact or fiction?

The keen minds at The Economist contemplate all these and more in their quest for the globe's most extraordinary and up-to-date quandaries and conundrums, brought together in this latest annual compilation of the oddest and the most mind-boggling. Amaze and delight everyone you know with bizarre facts and headscratchers that show the world is even stranger than we might have thought.

Industry Reviews

'Praise for Tom Standage:

'Uncommonly brilliant' - Daily Mail

'The Father Christmas of knowledge' - Giles Coren

'Books like this make you wary of ever guessing the answer to anything' - Daily Mail

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