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If you are a big trivia person, this is certainly the book for you. The most fascinating facts that dont really matter voorhees, don on. Embrace yourself for the largest online collection of useless facts that exists. For the trivia lover posted by kaitlyn on 22nd may 2014 my grandpa would love this book. Courtesy of the freeman institute dealing with people who drive you crazy. The most useless facts you will ever read another useless.
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Earth is 100 kg heavier every day due to falling of space dust there are approximately 5, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000,000 of bacteria living on planet earth millions of trees in the world are planted a. Facts in big book alcoholics anonymous, 12 steps and 12. Aug 04, 2010 open library is an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published. Aug 30, 2009 the essential book will be voorheess first contribution to perigees useless information series though he had also written an unaffiliated volume, back in 1998, called the book of totally useless information. Jun 26, 2006 this book is all about facts useless information of course, but information nonetheless that wont appear on any school quiz or anything like that, which is a shame because this book has really interesting facts and kept my attention all the way through the end. Well, sir winston churchill pm of wartime britian during ww2, has been famously recorded as having an opium addiction. Thirtyfive percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
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Very disappointing the book was obviously never proof read, grammar mistakes, more than one fact appearing beside some of the numbers and on top of that facts repeated later in the book. Only one man in 400 is flexible enough to give himself oral pleasure. Do you know these facts, laws, warnings, and signs. What are the top most useless books youve ever read. True to its name, most of the facts are useless, but many of them may actually help you in the future. The big book of random facts is the ultimate trivia book filled with funny and interesting facts. Useless facts galore yes, its a weird and crazy world. Some may be true, some may not be, but all are guaranteed useless. If youve ever wanted to be that person who can throw out a completely random fact that really has no use whatsoever to the person youre talking to but will still make them go, really. Unless you live in the united kingdom where its proper to. Buy a cheap copy of the best book of useless information. A native of morris county, new jersey, he now lives in.
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It gets harder and harder to get stuff that hasnt been used in another book, voorhees noted. The facts on the last page 5 had all appeared earlier in the book. What are some useless facts that are too fun to read. The book of useless information and millions of other books are available for amazon kindle. Home entertainment 41 useless facts you totally need to know right now. No number from 1 to 999 includes the letter a in its word form. The organization was a bit messy at times, and a majority of the facts were uninteresting. At that time there was the 2012 madness, and you can imagine that some of the most useless books i readconsulted where related to. Beetles taste like apples, wasps like pine nuts, and worms like fried bacon. I will be including reactions, mtls, texts, fluff, and. A group of authors created the useless information society and started gathering useless facts. Lighter was invented ten years before the match was. Humans are more exposed to falling coconuts as compared to sharks. If i happen to make a mistake, feel free to keep it to yourself because no one likes a teachers pet.
Don voorhees is the author of the incredible book of useless information, the super book of useless information, the indispensable book of useless information, the perfectly useless book of useless information, the essential book of useless information, and disgusting things. The guinness book of records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from public libraries. Every us president has worn glasses just not always in public. See more ideas about facts, fun facts and weird facts. Weird history stuff these are facts of events that happened in the past that have caused us to do certain things without even knowing why we do them. And, probably most useless of all, the only state that doesnt contain any of the letters in the word mackerel is ohio. There are about 7,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 atoms in a human body. Flamingos only can eat with their heads upside down. This is a web site of all the useless facts, cool trivia, and interesting information that have been collected from various sources over the past few years. Buy the book of strange facts and useless information by scot morris, george h morris online at alibris. Just kidding comment as much as you want and if you have a fact to share do that too.
By its very nature, the esoterica blog offers more than its fair share of meaningless trivia. The largest online collection of random, funny, interesting yet useless facts. Here are 11 random useless facts that will forever take up. Yeah i figured well, here are some completely useless facts but are always good to make you look that little more weird but sophisticated. But to the useless information society, any fact that passes its gaspinducing, notalotofpeopleknowthat test merits inclusion in this fascinating but ultimately useless book. Snowmobiling added 226 million dollars to the states economy in 1996.
The book contains some interesting facts, some stupid and obvious facts, but mostly things that turn out not to be facts at all. This book is all about facts useless information of course, but information nonetheless that wont appear on any school quiz or anything like that, which is a shame because this book has really interesting facts and kept my attention all the way through the end. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies. The book of useless information by noel botham, paperback. Some of the useless information presented in the book was interesting, however this book failed to live up to other triviafact books that i have read in the past. What are some interesting but useless facts about the earth. Um i have cats and all and i didnt need know to this fact. The guinness book of records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from libraries.
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