Download The Mental Floss History of the World: An Irreverent Romp Through Civilization's Best Bits AudioBook Free
About 60,000 years back, the first Homo sapiens were just starting their move over the grasslands or more the ladder of civilization. Everything since that time, as they say, is history. Just in case you were sleeping in school that day, the geniuses at mental_floss mag have put together a amusing (and historically exact) primer on everything you need to know-and which means the good products. Twelve core chapters of world record tackle from civilization's baby steps in the Fertile Crescent to the Not-Really-That-Dark-Unless-You-Lived-in-Europe Age groups to A World United by Terror and Television. From your Golden Haemorhoids of the Philistines (punishment from above) to the likely namesake of the animation elephant Babar (a Mongol prince) to the most pressing language translation issues facing the selections of today ("carp" vs. "crap"), most of history's most interesting pieces have finally been handpicked and roasted to efficiency.
