A lot of these facts were so strange but very interesting. I learned a lot and usually I don't read these type of books but now I might have to read some more of them. The only bad thing is i can't lable this as spoiler alert because there isn't too much that one can spoil. :)

I was given this book as a gift at Christmas many years ago, so long ago that I’m not actually sure who gave it to me. I’m pretty sure I read it at the time but as I’m currently trying to reduce the amount of stuff I have I thought I would read it before passing it on.

It was a mixed bag of some interesting facts and some not so interesting facts for me, I’m sure that if you asked two people their views on which were which would vary.

If you have a copy it’s worth reading just because it’s format of questions and answers makes it easy to pick up and put down. I did learn some new things just don’t ask me to remember them as I’ve already forgotten.

This is a fun book of weird and wonderful questions with (mostly) scientific answers.

My main problem with the book is I read the American version which doesn’t use metric so I skimmed over all the numbers and calculations (I can only think in metric).

A mixed bag. There were some good questions and some that were enjoyably odd. But the answers varied in quality - I was most frustrated by the "How long could you live on only beer?" one, in which they didn't even try to answer the question, just gave facts about beer.

This book is great for every single nerd or science fan out there! (yes they are 2 different things people!) the writing is really interesting and well done considering it's a compilation of all sorts of different questions (one of my favourites being "how fat do you have to be to be bulletproof") from newscientist magazine. So if you like science or you're just generally a bit of a nerd then this is the book for you!

This is a collection from the 'Last Word' column in New Scientist where readers pose questions, and their peers answer them.

I learned a lot of fairly useless information from this book (which is, of course, the best kind ;-) ) and had fun both with the breadth of questions and the knowledge of the general readership. A well-chosen set of questions (including what would happen if aliens stole the moon, whether nature has invented any wheels and how long a person could live on beer alone) keeps you entertained throughout.

Oh, and the answer to the titular question is yes, lots of things including birds, badgers, different types of insect and bears. And people too (wasp larvae are quite nice fried apparently).

There are some really interesting facts in this book along with a lot of snoozers. Different people will find different things interesting. Fortunately, you can just skip through the questions and answers you find boring.

Great read! Fun and educational facts written with a lot of humor. Highly recommend!

An interesting collection of questions and answers from New Scientist. They are divided into rough sections, and those on animals that I expected to find most interesting were actually of the least interest to me, perhaps because I already knew the majority of the answers and many of those appeared to be rather simplistic. Since the answers are also written by various readers of New Scientist a wide degree of variation in the expertise and slant of the answers is to be expected, but there were some real gems amongst them. I found a number of the ones in the sections Our planet and Our universe brought me new knowledge and information. The queries range from those of a small child, answered very fully and very seriously by a number of knowledgeable and eminent professionals, to the downright obscure - like whether a bee could find its way home after travelling for 10 miles on an underground train; and some large questions dealing with things that could affect the ability of man to survive on this world.

An ideal book for dipping into at times when reading may be fragmented and interrupted, and one which parents of inquisitive teenagers might find very useful to have as a reference book.

Some interesting information, some humor. Short tidbits answering an array of questions. I haven't read the magazine, New Scientist, and it might be interesting to check it out.

A fun little book. The format - a couple different answers to each question - takes a bit of getting used to, if you're not familiar with the magazine. A perfect "bathroom book."

Started out good but lost momentum.

The first 80 or so pages are really good.