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    The Little Book of Big Fun Facts
    The Little Book of Big Fun Facts
    The Little Book of Big Fun Facts
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    The Little Book of Big Fun Facts

    By Lowell R Torres

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    The Little Book of Big Fun Facts is a little book full of big fun facts for the whole family, but not babies, unless theyre genius babies who know how to read. Learn fascinating, humorous, and mostly pointless nuggets of information with which to amaze and/or bore your friends, family, co-workers and complete strangers.

    Did you know that the same person voiced Cookie Monster, Yoda and Miss Piggy?

    Did you know that in 1847 Philipp Semmelweis lowered the mortality rate during childbirth by 10% by having doctors wash their hands?

    Or that the University of Oxford was created before the Aztec Empire?

    Well if you didnt before, you do now. And theres more where that came from inside!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateJul 15, 2016
    ISBN9781532002328
    The Little Book of Big Fun Facts
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    Lowell R Torres

    Lowell was born and raised in NW Indiana, he lives today with his wife and two children in Bloomington, Indiana.

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      The Little Book of Big Fun Facts - Lowell R Torres

      Copyright © 2016 Lowell R. Torres.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the author except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

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      ISBN: 978-1-5320-0231-1 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-5320-0232-8 (e)

      iUniverse rev. date: 07/07/2016

      Contents

      Preface

      Australia

      US Presidents

      Ignaz Semmelweis

      The Human Body

      Preface

      By the fall of 2004 I was growing sick and tired of college life. It had been three years and I was treading water, dissatisfied with my choice of History as a major but unsure of what, exactly I’d do with that when I graduated. I’d started college as a Journalism major but the rules were too confining and restrictive (a belief that would only be confirmed when I worked at the school newspaper a couple years later). So when an editor for the Indianapolis Star showed up to one of my J100 classes and said, History majors end up as journalists as often as Journalism majors I was at my advisor’s office immediately to start the switch.

      I didn’t even really want to be a journalist, I just liked to – and wanted to – write. I wanted to be a novelist, to translate the stories that often popped into my head and took residence for a couple days or weeks or months or years. The problem

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