The Giant Book Of Odd Facts Quotes

“Peter III of Russia placed a rat on trial under martial law for chewing one of his toy soldiers. The rat was found guilty and was hung by the neck in a makeshift set of mini gallows.”
― Jake Jacobs, The Giant Book Of Odd Facts

“Many Estonians speak Finnish since they grew up watching Finnish television broadcasts that were inadvertently transmitted over the Gulf of Finland acting as a window to the democratic west during Soviet occupation.”
― Jake Jacobs, The Giant Book Of Odd Facts

“Vacuum Decay, the Universe’s theoretical “self-destruct button”, could go off at any time and destroy us without warning.”
― Jake Jacobs, The Giant Book Of Odd Facts