1,411 Quite Interesting Facts to Knock You Sideways is a gold mine of wide-ranging, eye-opening, brain-bursting nuggets of trivia that's impossible to put down, another "treasure trove of factoids" (National Public Radio, Weekend Edition).

Did you know?

• Orchids can get jet lag
• Lizards can't walk and breathe at the same time
• Frank Sinatra took a shower 12 times a day
• Ladybug orgasms last for 30 minutes
• There are 177,147 ways to tie a tie
• Traffic lights existed before cars
• The soil in your garden is 2 million years old