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The Book of Useless Information
Contributor(s): Botham, Noel (Author)
ISBN: 0399532692     ISBN-13: 9780399532696
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
OUR PRICE:   $14.25  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: June 2006
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Annotation: The Useless Information Society presents thousands of facts that will captivate readers with the joy of pursuing pointless knowledge--like the fact that organized crime accounts for ten percent of the United States's annual income, and fish scales are used to make lipstick.
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BISAC Categories:
- Humor | Form - Trivia
- Reference | Trivia
- Social Science | Popular Culture
Dewey: 031.02
LCCN: 2006043282
Physical Information: 0.81" H x 4.46" W x 8.05" (0.50 lbs) 304 pages
 
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Publisher Description:
What you may so cavalierly call useless information could prove invaluable to someone else. Then again, maybe not. But to The Useless Information Society, any fact that passes its gasp-inducing, not-a-lot-of-people-know-that test merits inclusion in this fascinating but ultimately useless book...

Did you know (or do you care)...

- That fish scales are used to make lipstick?
- Why organized crime accounts for ten percent of the United States's annual income?
- The name of the first CD pressed in the United States?
- The last year that can be written upside-down or right side-up and appear the same?
- The shortest performance ever nominated for an Oscar(R)?
- How much Elvis weighed at the time of his death?
- What the suits in a deck of cards represent?
- How many Quarter Pounders can be made from one cow?
- How interesting useless information can be?

The Book of Useless Information answers these teasers and is packed with facts and figures that will captivate you--and anyone who shares your joy in the pursuit of pointless knowledge.