Imponderables: Answers to the Most Perplexing and Amusing Mysteries of Everyday Life

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Reader's Digest Association, 2006 - Reference - 441 pages
Make sense of those amusing mysteries that surround our daily lives. Look aroung you - the world is full of perplexities, puzzlements, and peculiarities, all just begging to be explained. Imponderables provides the answers. Inside these pages are innumerable insights into nature, language, science, and daily living, written both to entertain and enlighten.

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Machines and Devices
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Everyday Stuff
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