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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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$24.00 US
Penguin Adult HC/TR | TarcherPerigee
4.49"W x 7.95"H x 0.67"D   | 6 oz | 24 per carton
On sale Oct 04, 2011 | 240 Pages | 978-0-399-53738-7
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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

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

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

Author

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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Table of Contents

 

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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