The Mammoth Book of Useless Information
Published on 11. October 2012
300 pages
978-1-78219-087-5 (ISBN)
Description
Did you know... The Sumerians were the first to brew beer, and all the brewers were women? If you didn't - then read on. If you are intrigued by the odd, fascinated by the fantastic or tickled by trivia, then this is the book for you. The Useless Information Society was formed by some of Britain's best-loved journalists, writers and entertainers, including Keith Waterhouse, Richard Littlejohn, Suggs, Noel Botham, Ken Stott and Brian Hitchen. They meet regularly to swap new nuggets of trivia. This is the eighth collection of their absorbing, hilarious and wholly useless facts. An absolutely enormous collection, lose yourself in hundreds of pages of endlessly diverting facts that will keep you amused for hours.
More details
Person
Noel Botham
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- 1: Inventions
- 2: The World and its People
- 3: Numbers
- 4: Arts and Entertainment
- 5: The Things People Say
- 6: Coffee
- 7: Superlatives
- 8: The Romans
- 9: Statistics
- 10: The Universe
- 11: History
- 12: Sayings and Omens
- 13: Science and Nature
- 14: The Wit and Wisdom of Oscar Wilde
- 15: Religion
- 16: Alcohol
- 17: Assassinated Presidents
- 18: Advertising
- 19: Sports and Games
- 20: London
- 21: Firsts
- 22: The Underground
- 23: About the Sexes
- 24: Ways to Go
- 25: Language and Literature
- 26: The Beatles
- 27: Food and Drink
- 28: Crime and Criminals
- 29: Doctors' Notes
- 30: Miscellaneous
- 31: Last Words
- Copyright
