Mental Floss Presents Condensed Knowledge: A Deliciously Irreverent Guide to Feeling Smart Again

Loaded with meaty trivia and tasty, bite-sized facts!

mental_floss is proud to offer a delicious, hearty helping of brain-food that's sure to fire up your neurons and tantalize your synapses. Condensed Knowledge is a mouthwatering mix of intriguing facts, lucid explanations, and mind-blowing theories that will satisfy even the hungriest mind!

Ingredients include:

5 tiny nations that get no respect

• 4 civilizations nobody remembers
• 5 classics written under the influence
• 4 things your boss has in common with slime mold
• 3 schools of thought that will impress the opposite sex
• 4 things Einstein got wrong
• 5 classical tunes you know from the movies
• 3 famous studies that would be illegal today
• 2 religious mysteries solved by chemistry
• 5 scandals that rocked art, and much more ...