The Super Book of Useless Information: The Most Powerfully Unnecessary Things You Never Need to Know

Authors: Voorhees, Don
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
BISAC/Subject: REF023000, SCI060000, SOC023000
ISBN: 9781101545133, Related ISBNs: 0399536965, 1101545135, 9780399536960, 9781101545133
Classification: Non-Fiction
Number of pages: 272,
Audience: General/trade
Synopsis: Faster than a speeding bullet, more useless than ever before.

The #1 New York Times bestselling series reaches new heights of irrelevance with this powerfully pointless, all-new collection of the things you never need to know.

Do you actually care that...

  • there are three feet of DNA in every cell?
  • Saturn has 47 moons?
  • March is National Frozen Foods Month?
  • in 2010 a traffic jam in China lasted ten days?

    Would it improve your life to know...

  • which movie star wanted to be a funeral director?
  • which state has the most horses per square mile?
  • which dictator was obsessed with Cheetos?
  • what day of the year the most cars are stolen in the United States?

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