List Books » The World's Greatest Book of Useless Information: If You Thought You Knew All the Things You Didn't Need to Know - Think Again
Authors: Noel Botham
ISBN-13: 9780399535024, ISBN-10: 0399535020
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
Date Published: July 2009
Edition: Original
Noel Botham is the chairman of the Useless Information Society, which formed in 1995 and comprises many of Britain's foremost thinkers, writers and artists, including playwright, author, and Daily Mail columnist Keith Waterhouse, and author and Sun columnist Richard Littlejohn.
From the creators of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Book of Useless Information-a collection of even greater insignificance.
More useless than ever before! Impress know-it-all friends with this all-new hodgepodge of frivolous facts and silly statistics that no one really needs to know. But honestly, how cool is it to find out that...
• There is a place in Maryland called Monkey's Eyebrow
• Giving yellow flowers is a sign of bad luck in Russia
• One brow wrinkle is the result of 200,000 frowns
• Paper can be made from asparagus
This is the book that will also tell you...
• The meaning of 'mageirocophobia'
• Where it is illegal to kill a butterfly
• Huckleberry Finn's remedy for warts
• What bodily fluid the Romans used as a hair treatment
And much, much more!