Some interesting points. Nothing much that we didn't know from other sources. One fun part is a list of French newspaper descriptions of Napoleon's escape from Elba and return to Paris; the ogre, cannibal, tyrant, tiger, becomes Napoleon, the Emperor, then a fawning array of titles. Section on the extinction or near extinction of many different species. One of the different halves of the brain. One on how to set up your own country. or how to evacuate a population. Or how to flood a Welsh valley although 35 out of 36 Welsh MPs are against it. Liverpool got the reservoir water. A few sections on adult activities. It's not really well presented, just a series of small items. And fast looking dated.