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    The Amazing Book of Useless Information (Holiday Edition)

    More Things You Didn't Need to Know But Are About to Find Out

    Author Noel Botham
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    Paperback
    $27.00 US
    Penguin Adult HC/TR | Tarcher
    4.49"W x 7.95"H x 0.67"D   | 6 oz | 24 per carton
    On sale Oct 04, 2011 | 240 Pages | 9780399537387
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    This collection of amazingly pointless-yet fascinating-facts will answer questions readers never even knew they had.
    Noel Botham is the chairman and a founding member of the Useless Information Society. Botham and the rest of his team lurk mostly around London. View titles by Noel Botham

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    LINGUISTICALLY CHALLENGED

    BELIEF BRIEFS

    ARITHMETIC EXAM

    FIRST IN LINE

    ROMANTIC NOTIONS

    WHEN IN ROME

    AD SPACE

    DISTURBING DIAGNOSES

    CROWN JEWELS

    SIMPLY SUPERSTITIONS

    UNIVERSALLY KNOWN

    GLOBE TROTTING

    BEING THE BEST

    HISTORICALLY ACCURATE

    INVENTOR ADVENTURES

    EAT, DRINK, AND BE MERRY

    COFFEE KLATCH

    SPIRITED AWAY

    MOVIE MAGIC

    AT LAST

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    This collection of amazingly pointless-yet fascinating-facts will answer questions readers never even knew they had.

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    Noel Botham is the chairman and a founding member of the Useless Information Society. Botham and the rest of his team lurk mostly around London. View titles by Noel Botham

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    Title Page

    Copyright Page

     

    LINGUISTICALLY CHALLENGED

    BELIEF BRIEFS

    ARITHMETIC EXAM

    FIRST IN LINE

    ROMANTIC NOTIONS

    WHEN IN ROME

    AD SPACE

    DISTURBING DIAGNOSES

    CROWN JEWELS

    SIMPLY SUPERSTITIONS

    UNIVERSALLY KNOWN

    GLOBE TROTTING

    BEING THE BEST

    HISTORICALLY ACCURATE

    INVENTOR ADVENTURES

    EAT, DRINK, AND BE MERRY

    COFFEE KLATCH

    SPIRITED AWAY

    MOVIE MAGIC

    AT LAST

    . All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.

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