Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #205467 in Books
• Published on: 2004-09-17
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 288 pages

Synopsis
Hot on the heels of the sensational success of the first Book of Useless Information, the Official Useless Information Society bring you another essential compendium of everything you never needed but always wanted to know. Were you aware, for example, that dynamite contains monkey nuts as an ingredient? Or what percentage of the world's population is drunk at any one time? The vital statistics of a groundhog? Or the odds of being killed by a tornado? If the irredeemably pointless turns you on, then this is the book for you.

Customer Reviews

What a useless book!
I am actually quite surprised at myself for buying this, even more so for buying the two other books in the "trilogy" and completely flabbergasted that I have managed to read them all! This book belongs to the "Books of useless information" series, currently consisting of "The Book of Useless Information", "The Ultimate Book of Useless Information" and the unforgettable "The World's Greatest book of Useless Information". A group of authors created the Useless Information Society and started gathering useless facts. Did you know that in Michigan any person over the age of 12 may have licence for a hand-gun as long as he or she has not been convicted of felony?(!) Or that Mick Jagger turned down a £3.5 million advance on his memoirs from a publishers house because, he said, he “couldn’t remember” enough significant details from his own life? Well, now you know, and by buying all three of these books you will learn thousands more. Useless you say? On the other hand, it can be quite good fill-in for speeches and presentations if you don’t have much else to say…

Not what it says
Great fun and not really what its title says. It will be of great use for compilers of trivia quizzes. Here you find tha answer to which is the only London tube station not to contain any of the letters in "mackerel".
However there are factual errors. e.g. Boston is not the only place where a plane flies over a car over a train over a boat. Brunel's Three Bridges, Southall, was there long before Boston's bridge.

RANDOM!!!!!
I have just bought this book for my boyfriend(there so difficult to buy for) and now i dont want to give it to him.
All of the facts are pretty useless (as you might have guessed),some leave you with a confused look wondering why the world is so random,some produce a knowing nod and most bring out a smile, but ultimately this is a great fun read brilliant for long journeys.
I shall now be able to outstand anyone with random facts.

Ps. this is infact the second book (the 1st is blue and the 3rd is Red and there is a brand new one about to be published which is pink)