Wildly Unnecessary Facts: Science Edition: Mind-Bending, Occasionally Alarming True Stories About How Everything Works

Did you know GPS satellites have to correct for time moving faster in orbit? Or that a bolt of lightning is hotter than the surface of the sun? Or that you have, technically, never touched anything in your entire life?Wildly Unnecessary Facts: Science Edition is a collection of true, thoroughly fact-checked stories about how the universe actually works - the strange, the funny, and the completely useless. No equations, no homework, no dry lectures. Just the good stuff.Inside, you'll find: - 9 chapters of mind-bending science, from kitchen chemistry to the physics of black holes - Science's most embarrassing public mistakes (NASA lost a spacecraft over a unit conversion) - Five widely-believed science myths, thoroughly debunked - A bonus round of party trivia questions to test what stuck Written in a warm, funny, conversational voice - this is science as it should be told: over drinks, not in a classroom.The second volume in the Wildly Unnecessary Facts series - no need to read Volume 1 first.