broken-nosed gods

 Why don't I live in a world where I can just Google "Miscellaneous Interesting Shit About Japan" and there will be a website or book that is, in fact, full of miscellaneous interesting shit about Japan? Or Germany? Or written Chinese?

I mean, I know for a fact that Bill Bryson has written at least two books of Miscellaneous Interesting Shit About The English Language. There should be keywords for this crap, people. There should be something that everyone tags their Miscellaneous Interesting Shit with, so we can all find it whenever we go "You know, I really need to know something weird and maybe kind of cool about X. For my novel/my presentation/my thesis/because I fucking feel like it."

So! Does anyone know any good books of Miscellaneous Interesting Shit? Or websites? Or just some they happen to have lying around? I swear, you guys, I just want to know more.


Miscellaneous Interesting Shit I recently found out:

In Germany, you can't buy your burial plot, only rent it. 

Tsukemogami. I so, so badly want to write a story with these in it. I don't even care what.