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    The Best Book of Useless Information Ever: An Official Useless Information Society Publication

    By Noel Botham

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    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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJohn Blake
    Release dateApr 1, 2008
    ISBN9781784184483
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    The Best Book of Useless Information Ever: An Official Useless Information Society Publication
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    Noel Botham

    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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    • 4/5
      Good time waster book. A lot of the information is "fame" based, which didn't really interest me, but luckily the book was split into sections so I could skip over that one.