The Indispensable Book of Useless Information: Just When You Thought It Couldn't Get Any More Useless--It Does |
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| Authors: | Voorhees, Don |
| Publisher: | Penguin Publishing Group |
| BISAC/Subject: | SOC022000, HIS030000, REF023000 |
| ISBN: | 9781101514795, Related ISBNs: 039953668X, 0399537112, 1101514795, 9780399536687, 9780399537110 |
| Classification: | Non-Fiction |
| Number of pages: | 256, |
| Audience: | General/trade |
Synopsis: Nothing you'll ever need to know is in this book
The #1 New York Times bestselling series continues to prove that there are plenty of things in this world no one needs to know about.
Why bother learning that...
*Poland sells a drink called Fart Juice?
*ATMs in Vatican City are in Latin?
*a two-year-old learns about ten new words a day?
*President George Washington checked out two library books that
are now 220 years overdue?
Do you really need to know...
*how many clocks are in the Pentagon?
*which state has towns called Intercourse and Virginville?
*what WD-40 stands for?
*the state with the fastest drivers?
The #1 New York Times bestselling series continues to prove that there are plenty of things in this world no one needs to know about.
Why bother learning that...
*Poland sells a drink called Fart Juice?
*ATMs in Vatican City are in Latin?
*a two-year-old learns about ten new words a day?
*President George Washington checked out two library books that
are now 220 years overdue?
Do you really need to know...
*how many clocks are in the Pentagon?
*which state has towns called Intercourse and Virginville?
*what WD-40 stands for?
*the state with the fastest drivers?
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