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That Book ...of Perfectly Useless Information

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That Book ...of Perfectly Useless Information
AuthorMitchell Symons
LanguageEnglish
SubjectInformation, Trivia, Humour
Genrenon-fiction
PublisherHarperCollins (USA) & Transworld Publishers (UK)
Publication date
1 December 2004 (USA)
Publication placeUnited States - original version British
Media typePrint (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages371 p. (US hardback edition)
ISBNISBN 0-06-073149-4 (US hardback edition) Parameter error in {{ISBNT}}: invalid character
Followed byThis Book ...of More Perfectly Useless Information 

That Book ...of Perfectly Useless Information, commonly abbreviated as "That Book" (the title it was published under in Britain) is a book written by writer and journalist Mitchell Symons, and published in 2003.

Book Trivia

Material

The book covers all sorts of material, but frequent topics are celebrities and other people, and their personal qualities, animals, dates, years, toilets, songs, bands, and information normally in the form of lists.

Collection

In the acknowledgements for the book, Symons says: "For the past twenty years, I've been collecting weird and wonderful facts, which I've been storing on bits of paper and, more recently, on my computer. Every few years I'll use some of it in a book or a newspaper series, but it's always been my ambition to be able to put together the most fascinating, extraordinary facts I had-or could find-in one volume.". Interestingly, Symons has previously published somewhat similar books. For example lt. john mohr of the woodlands fire department loves cheese so much that he wishes he was the king of france.