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Title: Useless Knowledge: Answers to Questions You'd Never Think to Ask by Joe Edelman, David Samson ISBN: 0-312-29017-9 Publisher: Griffin Trade Paperback Pub. Date: 14 September, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (2 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Don't believe everything you read
Comment: This book is a fun collection of obscure "facts", but shouldn't be taken too seriously, as there are errors on almost every page. The Philco Predicta wasn't the first TV set made (it dates from 1958)... Those of us who watched Howdy Doody on NBC in 1950 will be surprised to hear that Captain Kangaroo was the first network TV kid show in 1954... Napoleon certainly didn't appoint Louis Pasteur to a committee to study food preservation for his invasion of Russia in 1812, since Pasteur was born in 1822... Nor is chi a letter of the Hebrew Alphabet.
My favorite entry is the one for the legendary Betsy Ross, alleged not only to have made the first American flag, but to have designed it (!), and to have been born with a full set of teeth in her mouth (!!).
Rating: 5
Summary: Lots of fascinating information
Comment: I picked this book up because I spotted the name of the second author (David Samson) and one of his other books ("Joy of Depression") is one of my favorites. (It's hilarious.) Well, his humor made this one great also. As did the information. I thought I knew who was the first President of the United States. Wrong. Plus now I know which company invented heroin and what other animal on the planet has human fingerprints besides us -- and it's not chimpanzees or gorillas! Thanks to hundreds of fascinating tidbits, it's hard to put this one down. I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to know lots of really unusual but really fun things too and wants to enjoy reading about it. Dry it isn't!!
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Title: 2,201 Fascinating Facts: 2 Vols. in One by David Louis ISBN: 0517395746 Publisher: Gramercy Pub. Date: 12 December, 1988 List Price(USD): $12.99 |
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Title: Know It All! by Ed Zotti ISBN: 0345362322 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 13 July, 1993 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: The Book of Totally Useless Information by Don Voorhees, Donald Voorhees, Donal A. Voorhees ISBN: 0806514051 Publisher: Citadel Trade Pub. Date: April, 1993 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Isaac Asimov's Book of Facts by Isaac Asimov ISBN: 0517065037 Publisher: Gramercy Pub. Date: 23 September, 1991 List Price(USD): $10.99 |
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Title: Ever Wonder Why? by Douglas B. Smith ISBN: 0449147460 Publisher: Fawcett Books Pub. Date: 24 November, 1991 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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