And if that’s not enough, it’s a mere 1.4 pounds, as opposed to the Britannica’s 128 pounds. I competed in a crossword-puzzle tournament, went on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, and attended a Mensa convention. (My dad, for instance, holds the world record for the most number of footnotes in a law review article: 5,435.) And finally, it is a series of adventures to test the limits of intelligence. Third, it’s a memoir of my eccentric, knowledge-loving family. Second, it is a search for meaning and wisdom among that ocean of facts. The book is many things: First, it’s a compendium of the funniest, most fascinating, and most profound facts I uncovered-from the history of canned laughter to Nathaniel Hawthorne’s obsessive-compulsive behavior to female spies in the Civil War. Part memoir, part Cliff’s Notes to every topic under the sun, The Know-It-All is about the year I spent reading the Encyclopaedia Britannica from A to Z (or, more precisely, from a-ak to zywiec). The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to become the Smartest Person in the World
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