Reader`s Digest Book of Facts. H/C. 432 pp. 1987

First edition, third reprint with amendments 1987. The consultant editor was Magnus Magnusson, presenter of BBC TV's Mastermind Programme. A slight tear on bottom part of spine, cover otherwise in very good condition. Inside pages neat and clean. Binding still very sturdy.

In this magnificently readable assemblage of "things to know" you will find facts about the arts, about people and places, about science and technology, about the Earth and the universe of which it is part, about the animal kingdom, about plants, about history, about kings and queens, poets and princes, spies, rich people and fashion.

Did you know that false eyelashes were invented by the film director D.W. Griffith for his 1916 epic Intolerance? Did you know that children's teddy bears were named after President Theodore Roosevelt? That a new-born baby has 300 bones in his body, whereas an adult has only 206? 

With hundreds of beautifully detailed black and white and colour draughings