Product Description

Did you know that squirrels can't see the colour red? That Walt Disney, the creator of Mickey Mouse, was afraid of mice? That only 30 per cent of humans can flare their nostrils? Or that every year the average person eats 438 bugs by mistake? Let Mitchell Symons be your guide into the weird and wonderful world of totally useless trivia!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #76123 in Books
• Published on: 2008-10-09
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 320 pages

From the Back Cover
*An elephant produces an eye-wateringly pongy 20 kilos of dung a day!

Let Mitchell Symons be your guide into the weird and wonderful world of trivia.

- Camels are born without humps
-Walt Disney, creator of Mickey the Mouse, was scared of mice
- Only 30% of humans can flare their nostrils
- A group of twleve or more cows is called a flink.

About the Author
Mitchell Symons was born in 1957 in London and educated at Mill Hill School and the LSE, where he studied just enough law to get a Third. Since leaving BBC TV, where he was a researcher and then a director, he has worked as a writer, broadcaster and journalist. He was a principal writer of early editions of the board game Trivial Pursuit and has devised many television formats. Currently he writes an award-winning weekly column for the Sunday Express.

Customer Reviews

kept him quiet for hours!
I bought this book for my nephew who doesn't read (his mother said, grumpily).

Well, he read this. I gather he was heard chuckling out loud and was happy to let his sisters hog the computer, something that had never happened before. He was even apparently quoting from it in the car to and from school and boasted that he'd managed to impress his form teacher with some facts she wasn't aware of. From being the aunt who sometimes feels she buys the dullest presents, I gather I've rather gone up in the ratings... so I've ordered the other books in the series for my two nieces for Christmas. My sister says it wonderful to think there might even be a day when the computer is actually turned off in their house....

Fantastic book - a must read!
I bought this book for my 10 year old daughter for Christmas because it was a book she really wanted (not something I would have chosen because of the gross title) and she can't put it down. It's full of interesting facts about anything and everything and she just loves it - a must have for 10 year olds.

Fascinating!!!
My daughter got another book by the same author (Why eating bogeys is good for you) last year which she enjoyed. I bought this book for my 12 year old son but find myself having a flick through when he leaves it hanging around. Probably better than the other, compulsive reading, amazing facts!