Not me. I stayed up late with The World Almanac and Book of Facts. Rather than teach myself Elvish, I memorized the populations of cities and the heights of their tallest buildings (my hometown ...

For most of my childhood, I received a copy of the annual: World Almanac and Book of Facts. I certainly was not alone – the almanac is the bestselling reference book of all time, with more than ...

One of the tastiest morsels of information in "The World Almanac and Book of Facts 2023," tucked amid 1,008 pages of small-print facts and figures, is the selection by its editors of objects that ...