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1001 Things You Didn't Know You Wanted to Know (2006)

door Anna Mantzaris

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From short-lived celebrity marriages to athlete nicknames, here is a trivia book that eclipses all others. It isn't useless information, nor is it the conventional trivia that you might expect to find anywhere else. In short, it is all the stuff that you didn't even know that you wanted to know. Fortunately we have made it our business to know what you didn't know that you wanted to know in order to include it into this book. Choosing material that we anticipate you didn't know you wanted to know was a significant challenge. We were required to make a distinction between four things: stuff you wanted to know, but knew you wanted to know; things that you didn't know but knew you didn't know and didn't want to; things you didnt' know, didn't know you didn't know, but wouldn't want to even if you did; and most elusive of all, things you didn't know you even wanted to know, but would soon discover that you wanted to, once you knew them. It is this stuff that appears in this book. If there is anything that you feel strongly that you now know you didn't know you wanted to know that isn't here, please let us know.… (meer)

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This book should be retitled "1001 things I already knew half of anyway". This is nearly a useless book. Heavily US oriented, it contains a lot of information that most people would consider general knowledge such as:

- The US didn't enter WWI until 1917.
- Elephants are the largest land mammal.
- D-Day was 6/6/44.
- Ronald Reagan was the oldest president to take office.
- Shooting stars aren't really stars (really? I'd be worried if they were).
- The eye of a hurricane is the centre of the storm.

And the list goes on.

Read this book if you are an idiot or have been living under a rock your entire life and have never gathered any general knowledge. I read it in about an hour because I thought it might contain some interesting info, it didn't.

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KatiaMDavis | Dec 19, 2017 |

Most of the factoids in this book I already knew, and a fair majority of the rest were things I didn't care if I knew, but I did indeed find a solid handful of items I didn't know I wanted to know, so I'll call this one a win. I like weird little trivia books. And while I was sad to learn that Crayola retired "raw umber" in 1990, I was amused to learn that both leotard and doily are named after men, and that there is no documentation of when people first started wearing hats. Sure, this isn't the sort of book you'd want to sit down and read straight through (which, um, I guess is exactly what I did), but it's reasonably entertaining to page through from time to time. (

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From short-lived celebrity marriages to athlete nicknames, here is a trivia book that eclipses all others. It isn't useless information, nor is it the conventional trivia that you might expect to find anywhere else. In short, it is all the stuff that you didn't even know that you wanted to know. Fortunately we have made it our business to know what you didn't know that you wanted to know in order to include it into this book. Choosing material that we anticipate you didn't know you wanted to know was a significant challenge. We were required to make a distinction between four things: stuff you wanted to know, but knew you wanted to know; things that you didn't know but knew you didn't know and didn't want to; things you didnt' know, didn't know you didn't know, but wouldn't want to even if you did; and most elusive of all, things you didn't know you even wanted to know, but would soon discover that you wanted to, once you knew them. It is this stuff that appears in this book. If there is anything that you feel strongly that you now know you didn't know you wanted to know that isn't here, please let us know.

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