The Indispensable Book of Useless Information
The Indispensable Book of Useless Information

Author: Don Voorhees

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2011-05-03

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 1101514795

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Nothing you'll ever need to know is in this book The #1 New York Times bestselling series continues to prove that there are plenty of things in this world no one needs to know about. Why bother learning that... *Poland sells a drink called Fart Juice? *ATMs in Vatican City are in Latin? *a two-year-old learns about ten new words a day? *President George Washington checked out two library books that are now 220 years overdue? Do you really need to know... *how many clocks are in the Pentagon? *which state has towns called Intercourse and Virginville? *what WD-40 stands for? *the state with the fastest drivers?

The Best Book of Useless Information Ever
The Best Book of Useless Information Ever

Author: Noel Botham

Publisher: Kings Road Publishing

Published: 2007-09-10

Total Pages: 235

ISBN-13: 1784184489

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Hot on the heels of the sensational success of the "World's Greatest Book of Useless Information", the Official Useless Information Society brings you another essential compendium of everything you never needed but always wanted to know. Were you aware, for example, that cigarettes contain honey? Or that a ferret will die if it cannot find a mate? Would you like to know what Madonna did before she was famous, or how many toothpick accidents there are every year.If you are a lover of the wonderfully pointless, then this is the book for you.

The Mega Book of Useless Information
The Mega Book of Useless Information

Author: Noel Botham

Publisher: Kings Road Publishing

Published: 2010-11-01

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 1857829271

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Continuing the sensational success of the Useless Information Series, the Official Useless Information Society bring you another essential compendium of everything you never needed but always wanted to know. If you are a lover of the wonderfully pointless, then this is the book for you.

The Amazing Book of Useless Information
The Amazing Book of Useless Information

Author: Noel Botham

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9780399534683

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Collects whimsical trivia and features facts and statistics that cover such areas as sex, inventions, language, food and drink, celebrities, religion, and science and nature.

The Mammoth Book of Useless Information
The Mammoth Book of Useless Information

Author: Noel Botham

Publisher: Kings Road Publishing

Published: 2012-10-11

Total Pages: 346

ISBN-13: 1782190872

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Did you know... The Sumerians were the first to brew beer, and all the brewers were women? If you didn't - then read on. If you are intrigued by the odd, fascinated by the fantastic or tickled by trivia, then this is the book for you. The Useless Information Society was formed by some of Britain's best-loved journalists, writers and entertainers, including Keith Waterhouse, Richard Littlejohn, Suggs, Noel Botham, Ken Stott and Brian Hitchen. They meet regularly to swap new nuggets of trivia. This is the eighth collection of their absorbing, hilarious and wholly useless facts. An absolutely enormous collection, lose yourself in hundreds of pages of endlessly diverting facts that will keep you amused for hours.

The Bumper Book For The Loo
The Bumper Book For The Loo

Author: Mitchell Symons

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2012-11-08

Total Pages: 702

ISBN-13: 1448152712

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When Mitchell Symons wrote his extraordinary bestsellers This Book, That Book and The Other Book - all neatly combined in one sensational volume, The Ultimate Loo Book - he was judged by many to be the King of Trivia. Now, inThe Bumper Book for the Loo, this supremo of weird and wonderful, astonishing and inexplicable facts, figures, stats and stories returns with a super selection of trivialistic treats - each one more remarkable and, yes, even more trivial than anything he's compiled before. For example, did you know that... ·The first alarm clock could only ring at 4 a.m... ·There was once an internet rumour that Belgium doesn't exist... ·In 1830, King Louis XIX ruled France for just 15 minutes... ·All mammals have jaws but only humans have chins... ·Peru has more pyramids than Egypt... Packed to the rafters with all manner of useful and useless information, lists of the biggest, the smallest, the best and the worst, The Bumper Book for the Loo is a hilarious compendium of endless delights - and a hugely entertaining, unputdownable feat of nonsense!

The United States of Strange
The United States of Strange

Author: Eric Grzymkowski

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2012-06-18

Total Pages: 317

ISBN-13: 1440536201

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Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of All Things Weird Sure, you probably know that George Washington was our first president and that Christopher Columbus accidentally discovered America in 1492, but did you know that there are more plastic flamingos in the United States than there are real ones and that Disneyland employees were not permitted to wear their own underwear while dressing in character until 2001? Behind the portrait of America that history classes, news reports, and boring documentaries have painted lies a strange and perplexing country that you couldn't imagine even in your wildest dreams. Featuring 1,001 shocking facts, this book reveals all the secrets and weirdness that you never knew about the United States. From the thirty-two(!) bathrooms in the White House to the fact that a single U.S.–made hamburger may contain meat from 100 different cows, these wacky tidbits will guarantee that you'll never look at this nation the same way again!

Firsts, Lasts & Onlys of Cricket
Firsts, Lasts & Onlys of Cricket

Author: Paul Donnelley

Publisher: Hamlyn

Published: 2010-10-04

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 0600622533

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200 brilliant and bizarre curiosities highlighting the First, Last and Onlys that have occurred during the illustrious history of this sport - from the determined cricketers fined for playing on the Sabbath to the only virtuoso to score a century and take all ten wickets in a single innings. This absorbing collection of stories is guaranteed to enthral and includes some of the greatest gentleman to have graced the field of play, such as: The first player to bat on all 5 days of a test match. The last incidence of under-armed bowling in an international match. The only father and son to score centuries in the same First Class innings.Delight in a myriad of facts that you never knew about this glorious game.

Tuffers' Cricket Hall of Fame
Tuffers' Cricket Hall of Fame

Author: Phil Tufnell

Publisher: Headline

Published: 2017-05-18

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 147222938X

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Phil Tufnell, cricket legend and national treasure, has populated his very own Cricket Hall of Fame with a deliciously eclectic collection of cricket legends and offbeat characters, with joyful results. From boyhood heroes, to legendary team-mates, to fearsome opponents, to idiosyncratic umpires and broadcasters, Tuffers has gathered together the most enchanting cast of cricketing figures every assembled. And it wouldn't be a Tuffers tome if there weren't a number of captivating appearances from some unexpected quarters, including some genuinely off-the-wall, non-cricketing inductees to keep life interesting in this very personal Hall of Fame. By turns eccentric and warm-hearted, Tuffers' Cricket Hall of Fame is a joy for all cricket fans.