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The Best Book of Useless Information Ever
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Hot on the heels of the sensational success of the "World's Greatest Book of Useless Information", the Official Useless Information Society brings you another essential compendium of everything you never needed but always wanted to know. Were you aware, for example, that cigarettes contain honey? Or that a ferret will die if it cannot find a mate? Would you like to know what Madonna did before she was famous, or how many toothpick accidents there are every year.If you are a lover of the wonderfully pointless, then this is the book for you.
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Noel Botham is chairman and founding member of the Useless Information Society. Botham and the rest of his team lurk mostly around London.
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