Within the pages of Isaac Asimov's Book of Facts are many hours of entertaining and informative reading—little-known facts that will make you exclaim, time and again, "I didn't know that!"Here are some of the intriguing facts you will find in this book:-Emperor Caligula appointed his favorite horse as a consul of Rome.-Eskimos use refrigerators to keep food from freezing.-For distances of up to 150 feet, an alligator can outrace a man.-In 1896, two men rowed across the Atlantic.-The number of possible ways of playing just the first four moves on each side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000.-Jimmy Carter was the first U.S. president to be born in a hospital.
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