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I learned a lot of new information that left me both awestruck and eager to learn more. Plus, the facts in here are all great conversation starters.

For my full review, including my favorite random facts, you can click on my links below:
Blog: https://bookspoils.wordpress.com/2017/05/13/review-random-illustrated-facts-by-mike-lowery/
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1998025236

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A decent enough book of trivia, presented in large scale, with mostly only one factoid per page, due to the scratchy, hand-drawn illustrations and cartooning that I quite frankly could take or leave. While some of it was stating the obvious (cats have had links to witchcraft, etc) there is always someone for whom this will be their first such trivia compendium, and it's not too bad a place to start.

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Excellent resource for a variety of ages. Illustrations as capturing as the text.

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I have a particularly fondness for random, useless knowledge and a recent trend of requesting these little illustrated books on Netgalley as I've been enjoying them. This one doesn't disappointment.

The facts in this book are a good mix of "things I know but were nice to see because they aren't all that common knowledge" "really really irrelevant things I didn't ever need to know" "things I've never heard of that were really fascinating that I wish were elaborated on".

This is a short, quick read. The illustrations are captivating and very well done. The facts short, and so the point, and without extra embellishment - something that others may prefer but I found irritating in certain instances.

I did overall enjoy getting to read this book though.

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This is both a visual and mental delight of a book - packed from cover to cover with facts of all kinds for every reader to learn a little something, and an artistic aesthetic that helps them all pop.

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