Brush up on your Shakespeare, biology, art history, civics and much more with this all-purpose guide to the things you should have learned in school, but probably didn't, from the team that brought you the enormously successful new magazine, mental_floss.

Loaded with meaty trivia and tasty, bite-sized facts!

mental_floss is proud to offer a delicious, hearty helping of brain-food that's sure to fire up your neurons and tantalize your synapses. Condensed Knowledge is a mouthwatering mix of intriguing facts, lucid explanations, and mind-blowing theories that will satisfy even the hungriest mind!

Ingredients include:

• tiny nations that get no respect

• civilizations nobody remembers

• classics written under the influence

• things your boss has in common with slime mold

• schools of thought that will impress the opposite sex

• things Einstein got wrong

• classical tunes you know from the movies

• famous studies that would be illegal today

• religious mysteries solved by chemistry

• scandals that rocked art, and much more ...