The Most Interesting Book in the World Quotes

“In the Gulf of Mexico and other places around the world, there are lakes on the sea floor. When seawater dissolves thick layers of salt”
― Edward Brooke-Hitching, The Most Interesting Book in the World

“in a room with a cat. Frederick Herman, Duke of Schomberg (1615-1693) had the same aversion, as did Napoleon I (1769-1821) and Adolf Hitler (1889-1945).”
― Edward Brooke-Hitching, The Most Interesting Book in the World

“room with a cat. Frederick Herman, Duke of Schomberg (1615-1693) had the same aversion, as did Napoleon I (1769-1821) and Adolf Hitler (1889-1945).”
― Edward Brooke-Hitching, The Most Interesting Book in the World

“Calvin Klein’s cologne Obsession for Men has been used by zookeepers around the world, and forest rangers in central India, to pacify tigers. The scent contains civetone, a pheromone secreted in the perineal gland of the civet, a small carnivorous mammal. When big cats like tigers catch a scent of civetone they try and bask in it. Wildlife photographers and conservationists sometimes use civetone-rich cologne to lure cats to the camera lens.”
― Edward Brooke-Hitching, The Most Interesting Book in the World

“In 1919 at Tall Al’Ubaid in Iraq, archaeologists uncovered several 7000-year-old lizard-headed figurines. The example shown here appears to be a lizard-woman suckling an infant. Created by the prehistoric Mesopotamian Ubaid culture, we don’t know what the figurines represent.”
― Edward Brooke-Hitching, The Most Interesting Book in the World

“There’s a 129.50sq. km area in the Yellowstone National Park in which, as a result of a loophole in the Constitution of the United States, a person could theoretically commit any major crime including murder and avoid conviction. It’s known as the Zone of Death.”
― Edward Brooke-Hitching, The Most Interesting Book in the World

“In 1969 US President Richard Nixon (1913-1994) once got drunk and ordered a nuclear strike on North Korea. According to senior CIA specialist George Carver, when the North Koreans shot down a US Naval patrol aircraft on 15 April, ‘Nixon became incensed and ordered a tactical nuclear strike… The Joint Chiefs were alerted and asked to recommend targets, but Henry Kissinger got on the phone to them. They agreed not to do anything until Nixon sobered up in the morning.”
― Edward Brooke-Hitching, The Most Interesting Book in the World