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My growing collection of facts keeps overlapping with my life.

A.J. Jacobs

My growing collection of facts keeps overlapping with my life.

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About A.J. Jacobs

Arnold Stephen Jacobs Jr., commonly called A.J. Jacobs (born March 20, 1968) is an American journalist, author, and lecturer best known for writing about his lifestyle experiments. He is an editor at large for Esquire and has worked for the Antioch Daily Ledger and Entertainment Weekly.