This is one of those books you can dip into whenever you're stuck for something to read. It's just page after page of one or two line bits of useless trivia on all different topics grouped into related chapters.
Full of stuff like "The man who invented short-hand was deaf".
It did the job but I won't be reading it again as I donated it to charity as soon as I was finished.
The main problem I find with this kind of factoid book is that as soon as I've read the fact it disappears from memory never to return. I read 288 pages of this book and can't remember any of it.
I had to look up the book on Amazon to "Look Inside" to find the example I used above :)
Good for passing the time but rubbish for learning anything of any great use...hence the title of the book I suppose!
I'm giving this 2 "Useless Facts" out of 5
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