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Hot on the heels of the sensational success of the first Book of Useless Information, the Official Useless Information Society bring you another essential compendium of everything you never needed but always wanted to know. Were you aware, for example, that dynamite contains monkey nuts as an ingredient? Or what percentage of the world's population is drunk at any one time? The vital statistics of a groundhog? Or the odds of being killed by a tornado? If the irredeemably pointless turns you on, then this is the book for you.
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The Useless Information Society is a group of journalists, TV personalities and other assorted oddbods who meet twice a year to get enormously drunk and swap - you guessed it - useless information...
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Great fun and not really what its title says. It will be of great use for compilers of trivia quizzes. Here you find tha answer to which is the only London tube station not to contain any of the letters in "mackerel".
However there are factual errors. e.g. Boston is not the only place where a plane flies over a car over a train over a boat. Brunel's Three Bridges, Southall, was there long before Boston's bridge.
However there are factual errors. e.g. Boston is not the only place where a plane flies over a car over a train over a boat. Brunel's Three Bridges, Southall, was there long before Boston's bridge.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I have just bought this book for my boyfriend(there so difficult to buy for) and now i dont want to give it to him.
All of the facts are pretty useless (as you might have guessed),some leave you with a confused look wondering why the world is so random,some produce a knowing nod and most bring out a smile, but ultimately this is a great fun read brilliant for long journeys.
I shall now be able to outstand anyone with random facts.
All of the facts are pretty useless (as you might have guessed),some leave you with a confused look wondering why the world is so random,some produce a knowing nod and most bring out a smile, but ultimately this is a great fun read brilliant for long journeys.
I shall now be able to outstand anyone with random facts.
Ps. this is infact the second book (the 1st is blue and the 3rd is Red and there is a brand new one about to be published which is pink)
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I am actually quite surprised at myself for buying this, even more so for buying the two other books in the "trilogy" and completely flabbergasted that I have managed to read them all! This book belongs to the "Books of useless information" series, currently consisting of "The Book of Useless Information", "The Ultimate Book of Useless Information" and the unforgettable "The World's Greatest book of Useless Information". A group of authors created the Useless Information Society and started gathering useless facts. Did you know that in Michigan any person over the age of 12 may have licence for a hand-gun as long as he or she has not been convicted of felony?(!) Or that Mick Jagger turned down a £3.5 million advance on his memoirs from a publishers house because, he said, he “couldn’t remember” enough significant details from his own life? Well, now you know, and by buying all three of these books you will learn thousands more. Useless you say? On the other hand, it can be quite good fill-in for speeches and presentations if you don’t have much else to say…
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I bought this book to get some of the older boys I work with to read. This has been a great book to get boys interest. Although like it says on the cover. Read more
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This book does what it says on the tin! It is full of absolutely worthless information of variable accuracy.Do not expect too much!
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This book is exactly what it says - useless. But, equally, it's hilarious! You can bombard your friends with these facts, and they'll always give you that 'odd' look. Read more
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Ok call me sad but I just love this book, but then I love usless information anyway. It makes you smile, nod and it entertains just what you need when the "Other Half" is watching... Read more
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