A number-one bestseller, this is a comprehensive catalogue of all the misconceptions, mistakes and misunderstandings in 'common knowledge' that will make you wonder why anyone bothers going to school. Now available in this handy pocket-sized edition, carry it everywhere to impress your friends, frustrate your enemies and win every argument.
About the Author
John Lloyd and John Mitchinson, supported by a crack research squad of QI elves, are the authors of the bestselling The Book of General Ignorance. Ted Dewan is one of the UK's best-known children's authors and illustrators.
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The runaway bestseller of Christmas 2006 in a handy pocket-sized edition, perfect for flaunting facts on-the-go.
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A wee gem of a book! Loved it. Easy to read, full of fascinating obscure facts of the world around us.If you or anyone wanted to impress at parties, this just may be the book you're after. Great also for polishing up on your own general ignorance... highly recommended. This is a book you'd want to read again, and again.
A little gem of a book. Filled with over two hundred ignorant knowledge bytes that will leave you scratching your head and in fits of laughter. If you know you have absolutely no idea, then this book will certainly create the gap in your own knowledge, you thought you never knew was there. As noted by Stephen Fry, in the forward: "What we need is a treasure house , not of knowledge, but of ignorance..." Often the most baffling of answers are not from questions about things we think we are knowledgeable about; rather they derive from those answers to the questions most often NOT asked - at parties! For instance, this little gem poses the question: "What makes up the ingredient of air?" - simply, the answer you're looking for, is... or "What colour is water?" Can something be truly empty? What does 'emptiness' actually mean? Is there something that we call 'nothingness'? If 'nothingness' is actually something, what is it?
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