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

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

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

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.

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!!