The Utterly, Completely, and Totally Useless Fact-O-Pedia: A Startling Collection of Over 1000 Things You'll Never Need to Know

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Overview

Improve your small talk and sharpen your conversational skills with this giant collection of ridiculously useless but endlessly fascinating facts. Organized from A to Z, there are over 1,000 trivia tidbits for you to persue. Start off with little-known facts about Aristotle and Barbie, and continue until you've discovered hidden gems about zombies, zippers, and more!

Did you know Levi Strauss originally intended to sell canvas tents to miners in California but ended up using the fabric to make what the prospectors really needed - pants! r that a chicken in Colorado had its head cut off and managed to life... for another two years!

The Utterly, Completely, and Totally Useless Fact-o-pedia is a virtual treasure trove of useless fact fixes for the insatiably curious.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780007837939
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
  • Publication date: 3/20/2009
  • Pages: 308
  • Sales rank: 247,216
  • Product dimensions: 6.10 (w) x 7.60 (h) x 1.30 (d)

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  • Posted September 25, 2011

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    lots to digest

    Very interesting. Got it as a gift and although I am only halfway through learnt quite a lot.

    2 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted May 5, 2010

    I Also Recommend:

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    Fun for trivia buffs

    If you are a trivia/unusual information/factoid hound, this book is a great little time waster. Some of the tidbits will likely be familiar from other sources, but there is a good bit of new blurbs. The items are arranged by subject in alphabetical order. Some subjects have more entries than other, which makes this book a lot thicker than it really should be. A good way to pass time waiting for an appointment or a lazy afternoon.

    2 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 11, 2011

    Interesting read

    Lots of info about just about everything, in alphabetical order. Some of the statistics seemed a bit out of date...20 years old is a lot in the fast-paced society of today. Good bibliography.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 30, 2011

    I recommend that you read this book

    I read the book all the way through, some of the facts were very interesting. I found it to be a book you read inbetween other books

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  • Posted October 26, 2011

    great useless facts

    great read - interesting reading - highly recommended.

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  • Posted October 25, 2011

    Great book to pass the time with.

    As the title states, it is a collection of things you'll never need to know, but it was still very interesting and had a lot of "I didn't know that!" facts. It was very fun to read and then share the new "knowledge" with others.

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  • Posted October 24, 2011

    OK.

    Did not stay interested so therefor did not finish reading it.

    0 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 24, 2011

    Not Recommended

    Glad it wasn't very expensive. Would have preferred more trivia about foods, where names of things come from, etc rather than about foreign leaders and such. Read the whole book but was not impressed.

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