The Extraordinary Book Of Useless Information
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The Extraordinary Book Of Useless Information
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Author : Don Voorhees
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2013-09-03
The Extraordinary Book Of Useless Information written by Don Voorhees and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-03 with Reference categories.
There are more incredibly pointless and delightfully entertaining things to discover in this new entry in the #1 New York Times bestselling series, a must-have for trivia enthusiasts and a perfect white elephant gift. You probably never knew... • It is estimated that half of the world’s spider species have yet to be discovered. • November 15 is National Clean Out Your Refrigerator Day. And did you really ever have to know... • The whiskers on a harbor seal are known as “vibrissae”? • Modern scholars believe Isaac Newton may have had Asperger’s syndrome? • In the 1920s, Hollywood made twice as many films a year as it does today?
The Amazing Book Of Useless Information
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Author : Noel Botham
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2008
The Amazing Book Of Useless Information written by Noel Botham and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Humor categories.
Collects whimsical trivia and features facts and statistics that cover such areas as sex, inventions, language, food and drink, celebrities, religion, and science and nature.
The Super Book Of Useless Information
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Author : Don Voorhees
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2011-10-04
The Super Book Of Useless Information written by Don Voorhees and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-04 with Reference categories.
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?
The Book Of Useless Information
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Author : Noel Botham
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2006-06-27
The Book Of Useless Information written by Noel Botham and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-06-27 with Humor categories.
What you may so cavalierly call useless information could prove invaluable to someone else. Then again, maybe not. But to The Useless Information Society, any fact that passes its gasp-inducing, not-a-lot-of-people-know-that test merits inclusion in this fascinating but ultimately useless book... Did you know (or do you care)... • That fish scales are used to make lipstick? • Why organized crime accounts for ten percent of the United States’s annual income? • The name of the first CD pressed in the United States? • The last year that can be written upside-down or right side-up and appear the same? • The shortest performance ever nominated for an Oscar®? • How much Elvis weighed at the time of his death? • What the suits in a deck of cards represent? • How many Quarter Pounders can be made from one cow? • How interesting useless information can be? The Book of Useless Information answers these teasers and is packed with facts and figures that will captivate you—and anyone who shares your joy in the pursuit of pointless knowledge.
The Incredible Book Of Useless Information
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Author : Don Voorhees
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2012-10-02
The Incredible Book Of Useless Information written by Don Voorhees and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-02 with Humor categories.
The #1 New York Times bestselling series continues to delight and astound with an all-new collection of surprisingly unnecessary facts and figures. Would it surprise you to learn… •it takes a sloth about a month to digest a meal? •more tourists visit France than any other nation in the world? •the United States still has debt from the Revolutionary War? Do you think you ever need to know… •what type of trees are most frequently struck by lightning? •how much a clerk was paid for penning the U.S. Constitution? •which celebrity uses the pseudonym Slappy White?
The Essential Book Of Useless Information
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Author : Don Voorhees
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2009-10-27
The Essential Book Of Useless Information written by Don Voorhees and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10-27 with Humor categories.
More facts! Less substance! The newest entry in the #1 New York Times bestselling Useless Information series. The useless information never ends in the newest, most crucially meaningless entry in the Useless Information series. This latest cornucopia of amazingly pointless facts and figures will have trivia buffs marveling at all the things they never needed to know.
The Perfectly Useless Book Of Useless Information
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Author : Don Voorhees
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2010-05-04
The Perfectly Useless Book Of Useless Information written by Don Voorhees and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-05-04 with Humor categories.
It doesn't get any more useless than this! The most inconsequential entry yet in the #1 New York Times bestselling series proves that information is overrated. Your life won't be improved by knowing that... ? Frank Sinatra's mother was a convicted felon. ? Bugs Bunny was born in Brooklyn. ? The average American home contains $90 in loose change. ? It is illegal to use the American flag in advertising. And there's no good reason to also discover... ? Which game show host previously worked as a garbageman. ? Which day of week is the most popular to rob a bank. ? Which millionaire loaned his kidnapped grandson ransom money at 4 percent interest. ? Which country once had a dog for a king.
That Book
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Author : Mitchell Symons
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2010-09-07
That Book written by Mitchell Symons and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-09-07 with Fiction categories.
Did you know that . . . John Wayne once won the dog Lassie from its owner in a poker game? Hijinks is the only word in the English language with three dotted letters in a row? The shortest war in history, between England and Zanzibar in 1896, lasted only thirty-eight minutes? Want to learn which U.S. president was a descendant of King Edward III? Or which famous people lived to read their own obituaries? Then That Book is the book for you! From history to science to pop culture, here is an irresistible, enlightening, and absolutely addictive treasure trove of fascinating and fun little-known facts that no one needs to know—an indispensable boon to every true lover of trivia and marvelous minutia!
Uncle John S Bathroom Reader Extraordinary Book Of Facts And Bizarre Information
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Author : Bathroom Readers' Institute
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2012-05-01
Uncle John S Bathroom Reader Extraordinary Book Of Facts And Bizarre Information written by Bathroom Readers' Institute and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-01 with Humor categories.
From cannibals to conspiracy theories to the origin stories of candy, a compendium of thousands of fun facts to read behind closed doors! Our readers asked for it, and here it is: Uncle John’s first collection of his greatest short facts and quick reading material. Open up to any page of Extraordinary Book of Facts and you might find a list of, say, obscure words (“exocannibals” eat enemies; “indocannibals” eat friends). Flip to another page and there’s a whole bunch of facts about how long things take (a yak’s gestation period: 258 days). On another page: kid facts (the average four-year-old laughs 400 times per day; grownups, about fifteen). Get smarter and laugh a lot more with this amazing collection that features thousands of great facts, plus word origins, myth-conceptions, conspiracy theories, and much, much more. Arranged for simple and speedy reference, this book is the perfect companion for trivia buffs and knowledge junkies everywhere!
The Usefulness Of Useless Knowledge
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Author : Abraham Flexner
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2017-02-21
The Usefulness Of Useless Knowledge written by Abraham Flexner and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-02-21 with Reference categories.
A short, provocative book about why "useless" science often leads to humanity's greatest technological breakthroughs A forty-year tightening of funding for scientific research has meant that resources are increasingly directed toward applied or practical outcomes, with the intent of creating products of immediate value. In such a scenario, it makes sense to focus on the most identifiable and urgent problems, right? Actually, it doesn't. In his classic essay "The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge," Abraham Flexner, the founding director of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and the man who helped bring Albert Einstein to the United States, describes a great paradox of scientific research. The search for answers to deep questions, motivated solely by curiosity and without concern for applications, often leads not only to the greatest scientific discoveries but also to the most revolutionary technological breakthroughs. In short, no quantum mechanics, no computer chips. This brief book includes Flexner's timeless 1939 essay alongside a new companion essay by Robbert Dijkgraaf, the Institute's current director, in which he shows that Flexner's defense of the value of "the unobstructed pursuit of useless knowledge" may be even more relevant today than it was in the early twentieth century. Dijkgraaf describes how basic research has led to major transformations in the past century and explains why it is an essential precondition of innovation and the first step in social and cultural change. He makes the case that society can achieve deeper understanding and practical progress today and tomorrow only by truly valuing and substantially funding the curiosity-driven "pursuit of useless knowledge" in both the sciences and the humanities.