Useless Knowledge: Answers to Questions You'd Never Think to Ask

by D.M. Samson, Joe Edelman, David Samson

Book Overview

How can your tongue get you arrested?
What dessert is as smart as the average adult?
What's louder: A jet plane at take-off or a hippo having sex?

In the form of a lively and eccentric course catalog, this brainchild of the creator of the wildly successful www.uselessknowledge.com offers up loads of facts of little consequence for the hardcore trivia buff or the casual enthusiast. Inside, you'll find topics and entries like these:...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312290179
• ISBN13: 9780312290177
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Great read!!!!

Such an awesome read, I still read it today , when I bought it a year ago! So much interesting facts :)

interesting

I read this book in about a day ... it just makes you more and more curious

Read with a grain of salt

I got a lot of laughs from the book. The "facts" are not always true -- kind of like what you'd expect from a cocktail party flippant sort of reply. Great book for 2 truths and a lie or just for making the reader or other go "I wonder if..." and rush off to look up the information.

Lots of fascinating information

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!!