Did you know that Caesar founded FC Bayern München? That we have Stalin to thank for the “The X-Files”? Or that a flying cow made Viagra socially acceptable, that the invention of the light bulb turned Frank Sinatra into a deadly weapon and that Nietzsche wrote the official song for the 2010 Winter Olympics?
There are just seven degrees of separation between any event in world history and any other, no matter how insanely distant, as Danny Kringiel amusingly shows. He strides through pop culture and serious history, combining the educational with the entertaining: for example, how Richard Wagner created the most patriotic fries in the world, how the plague made Harry Potter’s love life take off and how Johannes Gutenberg bestowed sex on a renegade Mormon on the moon. In a surprising and tongue-in-cheek way, he shows why absolutely everything is connected to absolutely everything else!
