Quote: "just something that has a bunch of interesting articles/facts "
If you want interesting stuff, read Bill Bryson's Short History of Almost Everything. It covers everything from the conception of the universe to modern day. It's like a history lesson, but with all the interesting and bizarre stuff that they never taught you at school.
Try these for example, from the book:
If you made a scale model of our galaxy and shrunk the earth to the size of a pea, Pluto would be placed 2.5 kilometres away.
It takes 12 years to reach Pluto at 56,000 miles an hour, the speed of the Apollo rockets. It would take 10,000 years to reach the edge of our solar system at the same speed.
The tongue twister "She sells sea shells..." is about a girl called Mary Annin, who collected and sold fossils and dinosaur bones from the South Coast of England. So they weren't shells, we really are sure
Parkinson, whom the "shaking" disease is named after, also invented CFCs. CFCs do 10,000 times more damage to the ozone layer than Carbon Dioxide.
This book is the best ever for interesting snippets.
