The Indispensable Book of Useless Information: Just When You Thought It Couldn't Get Any More Useless--It Does

The Amazing Book of Useless Information

by Don Voorhees

Nothing you'll ever need to know is in this book

The #1 New York Times bestselling series continues to prove that there are plenty of things in this world no one needs to know about.

Why bother learning that...

* Poland sells a drink called Fart Juice?
* ATMs in Vatican City are in Latin?
* a two-year-old learns about ten new words a day?
* President George Washington checked out two library books that
are now 220 years overdue?

Do you really need to know...

* how many clocks are in the Pentagon?
* which state has towns called Intercourse and Virginville?
* what WD-40 stands for?
* the state with the fastest drivers?

Genres: Nonfiction, Reference

256 pages, Paperback

First published May 3, 2011

Reviews

[Mohamed Asraf]

Last book of 24’. 3.5/5. An interesting and fun read to end the year like 17% of Americans pees in the pool and even Micheal Phelps does it.

From Giza Pyramid being the tallest building for 3,800 years to there were 400-410 days in Earth year over 350 millions years ago was intriguing.

[Emmy]

This was a very fun, informative book. A bit dry in parts (perhaps the facts weren't that exciting for a couple of pages, or perhaps I just wasn't interested in those topics?) but overall, a wonderful collection. I learned a lot.

[Utena]

This was packed with information that I found rather interesting. There were things I had no knowledge of and it was actually really fun to see if the rest of the family knew it too.

[Barbara]

I just finished a shared reading of The Indispensable Book of Useless Information. Most of the information was useless and common knowledge, but the book was entertaining. It gave us something to talk about, besides politics and/or the weather. It took us almost a year to finish. I’d definitely recommend reading it in small doses. Definitely an enjoyable read.

[Don't Look]

Useless information: don't know what to do with the information once it's read, but I got a lot of laughs out of it.

[Si Pendita]

I... Um. Useless information.

[Kerrikoala]

3.5 stars. Mostly picked this up because of the cover, but the facts were interesting. The organization and format left something to be desired, though.

[Farras Octara]

Useless facts are somehow always useful to me.

[Mommooshka]

An enjoyable book of obscure but interesting facts about a wide variety of subjects. Fun to pick up when you have a small amount of time. Sure to find a fact of interest to you on almost every page.