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Brush up your Shakespeare, your biology, your art history, your civics and much much more with this all-purpose guide to feeling smart again. From the team that brought you the enormously successful new magazine, mental_floss (named one of the top 10 new magazines of 2001 by Library Journal), Condensed Knowledge is a trove of fun and useful information that blurs the line between great education and great entertainment. Covering the major subject areas, from history to physics to economics, it condenses the entire body of human knowledge into tantalizing lists such as “geniuses who died paupers”, “religious rituals that hurt like hell”, “poems nobody understands”, “explorers who fell short of their destinations but got credit anyway”, and much much more. Leave it on the coffee table and you’ll find it dog-eared within the hour. Crib it before a cocktail party and you’ll have enough material to be interesteing all night!

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For the discerning intellect, Mental Floss cleans out the cobwebs. --Chicago Tribune

A lot like that professor of your who peppered his tests with raunchy jokes: it makes learning fun. -- Newsweek A delightfully eccentric and eclectic new magazine. -- Washington Post Part scholarly journal, part Spy magazine protege. -- Charlotte Observer For the discerning intellect, Mental Floss cleans out the cobwebs. -- Chicago Tribune The titans of trivia. -- Newsweek An ideal reference to settle arguments or jog your memory. -- Calgary Herald

For the discerning intellect, Mental Floss cleans out the cobwebs. -- Chicago Tribune

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Will Pearson and Mangesh Hattikudur met as first year students at Duke University. Ignoring the lures of law school and investment banking, the pair co-founded mental_floss and have been grinning ever since. Maggie Koerth-Baker is a freelance journalist and a former assistant editor at mental_floss magazine, where she consistently astounded Will and Mangesh with her amazingness.

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