In my office, I’m the Queen of useless trivia. I pale in compare to author Dan Lewis, Head of the daily digital history email, Now I Know, and the official reigning champion of weird facts. In the new book Now I Know: The Soviets Invaded Russia? you can learn a ton of weird stuff, such as when Americans took over a town in Wisconsin to practice what it might be like if the country was taken over by the Communists during the cold war. You can find out how a measles outbreak gave us phone numbers, or how pirates made it so that the United States is on of only like three countries that doesn’t use the metric system. Lewis links the facts so that each one ties into the other, and each gets a special bonus fact.
If you’re looking for a way to avoid political conversations with your relatives this Thanksgiving and give folks a heavy dose of random knowledge, you need a copy of Now I Know: The Soviets Invaded Russia?
Look for Now I Know: The Soviets Invaded Russia? October 22, 2019.
