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The Amazing Book of Useless Information: More Things You Didn't Need to Know But Are About to Find Out
The Amazing Book of Useless Information More Things You Didn't Need to Know But Are About to Find Out Author:Noel Botham, Useless Information Society The Useless Information Society's latest collection, The Amazing Book of Useless Information, will answer questions readers never even knew they had. From space travel to the history of jelly beans, this wide-ranging, brain-teasing, and altogether useless book will give readers information to out-trivialize even your cleverest ... more »of companions.
Did you now - or care - that...
there is a town in West Virginia called Looneyville?
women can talk with less effort than men?
lemons have more sugar than oranges?
Aren't you dying to know the answers to these life-changing questions (inserted here solely to get you to buy this book):
What was the Ancient Roman cure for a stomachache?
What is a "buckle bunny"?
Where is the coldest place in the universe?
In 1995, a secret society was formed comprising Britain's foremost thinkers, writers, and artists to explore the world's most bizarre nooks and crannies and to trade and share in useless information (or, as founding member Keith Waterhouse, playwright and journalist, would have it, "totally bloody useless").
Noel Botham is chairman and founding member of The Useless Information Society. Botham and the rest of his team lurk mostly around London.« less