Ha! I had this whole series of books as a kid.... they were awesome (still are)...
The other ones I remember were "Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise?", "When Do Fish Sleep?", "When Did Wild Poodles Roam the Earth?"... Looking on Wikipedia, there are quite a few...
It's a myth. Oil doesn't come from fossilized animals. It comes from biomass, primarily from plankton and decaying marine organisms, and “single-celled bacteria” that “evolved in the Earth’s oceans about three billion years ago.”
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