Discover the baffling, bizarre and utterly entertaining answers to all the questions you never thought to ask.

This witty and compulsive collection of trivia will captivate and surprise you with its fun and funky revelations:

•Why is New York called "the Big Apple"?
•How do people count cards at casinos?
•What keeps the head on a glass of beer?
•Why don't you ever see baby pigeons?
•Why is getting married called tying the knot?

Andrew Thompson practices law but his obsession with finding out the truth about aspects of the world that we take for granted has led him to accumulate a vast body of knowledge that he has at last distilled into book form.