Isaac Asimov's Book of Facts

Within the pages of <i>Isaac Asimov's Book of Facts </i>are many hours of entertaining and informative reading - little-known facts that will make you exclaim, time and again, &quot;I didn't know that!&quot;<br>Here are some of the intriguing facts you will find in this book:<br>-Emperor Caligula appointed his favorite horse as a consul of Rome.<br>-Eskimos use refrigerators to keep food from freezing.<br>-For distances of up to 150 feet, an alligator can outrace a man.<br>-In 1896, two men rowed across the Atlantic.<br>-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.<br>-Jimmy Carter was the first U.S. president to be born in a hospital.