Know-It-All: Author A.J. Jacobs Story aired: Tuesday, November 16, 2004
Imagine if you knew everything, and I mean everything. That the Bayer Aspirin company invented heroin, that Thomas Jefferson washed his feet every morning, or that George Bernard Shaw once posed nude for an art photographer. If you knew it all, think how entertaining you'd be at a dinner party, or on a radio show...
We demonstrate with A.J. Jacobs, the Esquire editor who spent a year reading the full Encyclopedia Britannica and who has written a book called "The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World." In addition to this tongue-in-cheek quest, he touches on more serious topics: his relationship to his father and how he and his wife prepare for their first child.
