Do Elephants Jump?
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Publisher Description
The tenth book in David Feldman’s bestselling Imponderables® series, packed with even more answers to perplexing questions and solutions to everyday mysteries
Every day, we are confronted with innumerable small mysteries, which puzzle and confound. In his latest book, David Feldman answers 100 new and even more perplexing questions about food, popular culture, the human body, science, and more, such as:
Why do pianos have 88 keys? Why is there no light in the freezer?And, of course, Do elephants jump?
Like the other books in the Imponderables series, Do Elephants Jump? is in a question/answer format, with questions sent in by readers and fans of the series, and answers painstakingly researched and offered in Feldman’s trademark humorous style.
This tenth book in the series is complete with a master index to all the Imponderables® books, and charming illustrations by longtime collaborator Kassie Schwan.
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In this latest addition to his"Imponderables" series (which includes Do Penguins Have Knees? and When Do Fish Sleep?), Feldman answers about four score more fascinating questions that, as he puts it in a rather vivid analogy,"spring from dark corners like cockroaches in a crumb-filled kitchen." So do elephants jump? The answer is pretty easy to guess: elephants' legs and bones are not structured for jumping. Other questions provide more illuminating information: silver fillings don't rust because they contain more mercury than silver; Campbell's Alphabet Soup is sold only in North America; football's two-minute warning was invented to keep the game fair; pregnant women may get strange food cravings because hormonal changes affect their perception of taste. But obvious or arcane, Feldman's answers are consistently lively and entertaining. His collection is a good fit for trivia hounds on the go, as each of the brief q&a's take only a few minutes to read.
