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An overview of the past century offers believe-it-or-not stories, unusual facts, dubious achievements, and other offbeat trivia, presented in more than seven hundred short entries
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In more than seven hundred lively short entries and two hundred photographs, fact maven David Wallechinsky captures the century's most intriguing people, events, and discoveries - and the oddest, most unusual sidelights, including large animals discovered in the twentieth century, milestones in computer history, people made famous by their death, sects and cults, human behavior experiments, food firsts, crimes of the twentieth century, people with strange powers, the original profession of 16 Nazi leaders, people who never were - yet live today and many more.
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