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It turns out that facts, when viewed as a large body of knowledge, are just as predictable. Facts, in the aggregate, have half-lives: we can measure the amount of time for half of a subject's knowledge to be overturned.
Samuel Abesman, The Half-Life of Facts: Why Everything We Know Has an Expiration Date.
Also, this book was a horrible agglomeration of irrelevant and un-analyzed factoids. If you've already read any two Malcolm Gladwell books or Freakonomics, It'd be considerably more educational to skip this book and just read the cards in a Trivial Pursuit box.