The Indispensable Book of Useless Information: Just When You Thought It Couldn't Get Any More Useless--It Does

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?
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