Everybody Knows That
R69,00
Porcupines shoot quills. Sugar sends children bouncing off the walls. Lightning never strikes the same place twice. Everybody knows that—or do they? Everybody Knows That takes on 20 familiar “facts” and finds out what actually holds up. Expect surprising answers, a little science and the occasional myth that really should have checked its sources.
Description
Some myths begin with a genuine observation. Others emerge from misunderstood research, advertising, films, folklore or a well-intentioned adult trying to stop a child from doing something annoying. Once repeated often enough, they become familiar—and familiarity has an impressive habit of dressing itself as fact.
Everybody Knows That investigates twenty confidently repeated claims that have been exaggerated, misunderstood, framed or simply invented. Covering science, history, animals and more.
