Mental_Floss Presents: Condensed Knowledge

the long version

Brush up on your Shakespeare, biology, art history, civics and much more with this all-purpose guide to the things you should have learned in school, but probably didn't, from the team that brought you the enormously successful new magazine, mental_floss.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:• tiny nations that get no respect• civilizations nobody remembers• classics written under the influence• things your boss has in common with slime mold • schools of thought that will impress the opposite sex• things Einstein got wrong• classical tunes you know from the movies• famous studies that would be illegal today• religious mysteries solved by chemistry• scandals that rocked art, and much more ...