What do you think?
Rate this book
Steve Wright's Book of Factoids
"Steve Wright is a national institution." —Ricky Gervais Now fully revised and updated with new content, Steve Wright presents a selection of the weirdest, most fascinating, and entertaining trivia from around the world, as featured on his radio show Steve Wright in the Afternoon , along with commentary, anecdotes, photos, and illustrations. No subject is off-limits and even the most boring of categories will provide an amazing fact, illustrated with a variety of humorous photos and drawings. This paperback edition has been revised and updated and also includes a special section on the World Cup.
- GenresHumor
175 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2005
5 people are currently reading
12 people want to read
About the author
Steve Wright
111 books15 followersSteve Wright, a playful and innately curious soul, enjoyed an eleven-year professional football career with the Cowboys, Colts, and Raiders, yet these years did not define him.
Driven by his entrepreneurial instincts, he created an innovative misting company, Cloudburst, that cooled professional sports, the US military, NASA, and the 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics.
His motto to leave people, places, and things better than he found them also led to his work on behalf of Globall Giving to provide gently used sports equipment to over a million children across thirty-five countries and counting.
Forever a lover of adventure, Steve joined the cast of Survivor for thirty-one days of starvation where he embraced the jungle of Nicaragua and emerged more passionate about life. His journey of continuous growth includes an unparalleled passion for physical and mental fitness which he practices and shares with his community in Malibu, California.
Steve now brings his voice to the public debate on healthy masculinity and more broadly humanity through his memoir, Aggressively Human, inspiring others to embrace empathy and kindness as a complement, not a challenge, to aggression.
Driven by his entrepreneurial instincts, he created an innovative misting company, Cloudburst, that cooled professional sports, the US military, NASA, and the 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics.
His motto to leave people, places, and things better than he found them also led to his work on behalf of Globall Giving to provide gently used sports equipment to over a million children across thirty-five countries and counting.
Forever a lover of adventure, Steve joined the cast of Survivor for thirty-one days of starvation where he embraced the jungle of Nicaragua and emerged more passionate about life. His journey of continuous growth includes an unparalleled passion for physical and mental fitness which he practices and shares with his community in Malibu, California.
Steve now brings his voice to the public debate on healthy masculinity and more broadly humanity through his memoir, Aggressively Human, inspiring others to embrace empathy and kindness as a complement, not a challenge, to aggression.
Ratings & Reviews
Friends & Following
Create a free account to discover what your friends think of this book!
Community Reviews
Displaying 1 - 2 of 2 reviews
January 17, 2018
The little comments after the facts are probably entertaining on the radio but don't work written down. Also I wasn't interested in a lot of the facts and many of them were well known ones. The design of the book was fussy and seemed to be trying to hard.
September 5, 2013
I love these sorts of books. It is based on the Factoids section of Steve Wrights radio programme, where they find lots of weird facts to entertain the listeners. Some of my favourite facts from this book are:
"If the sun stopped shining, it would take us 8 minutes to know about it."
"A lot of lovemaking can unblock a stuffy nose. Sex is a natural antihistamine. It can combact asthma and hayfever"
"Freelance originally meant mercenary soldier, a person who was free to use his lance for you, if you had the money to pay him."
"A young man from Scotland who is obsessed with the film 'An American Werewolf in London' was jailed for four months after breaching his ASBO which banned his persistant howling."
"If the sun stopped shining, it would take us 8 minutes to know about it."
"A lot of lovemaking can unblock a stuffy nose. Sex is a natural antihistamine. It can combact asthma and hayfever"
"Freelance originally meant mercenary soldier, a person who was free to use his lance for you, if you had the money to pay him."
"A young man from Scotland who is obsessed with the film 'An American Werewolf in London' was jailed for four months after breaching his ASBO which banned his persistant howling."
Displaying 1 - 2 of 2 reviews