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- shark embryos can attack?

- caterpillars can tap dance?

- koalas have fingerprints almost identical to those of humans?

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- chimpanzees talk about food?

- male animals from hot climates make bad fathers?

- owls employ snakes as babysitters?

- rats can learn the differences between languages?

- some parasites castrate their victims?

- dogs can see moving objects up to 985 yards away?

- ants won't cross a chalk line?

- a sloth moves so slowly that fungus grows on its feet?

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People have an endless fascination with the Titanic, yet much of what they know today is a mixture of fact and fiction. In one hundred and one brief and engaging chapters, Tim Maltin, one of the foremost experts on the Titanic, reveals the truth behind the most common beliefs about the ship and the night it sank. From physics to photographs, lawsuits to love stories, Maltin doesn't miss one tidbit surrounding its history. Heavily researched and filled with detailed descriptions, quotes from...

• After his famous midnight ride, Paul Revere was later kicked out of the militia for his role in the Penobscot Expedition, the most disastrous military blunder of the Revolutionary War.
• Consumed with guilt over his role as a magistrate in the...

Sure, you could use your vacation days to take the family to the beach again. Or, you could plan a trip to see brains in jars, frozen dead guys, and visit a factory that makes candy-coated insects. You can:

• head down to Houston, Texas, and walk inside a 27-foot model of the human intestinal system
• visit a Civil War battlefield embalming diorama
• head over...

Is any of it true? If so, how true? Ken Jennings wants to find out if parents always know best. Yes, all those years you were told not to sit too close to the television or swallow your gum or crack your knuckles are called into question by our country's leading trivia guru. Jennings separates myth from fact...