That Book ...of Perfectly Useless Information

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That Book ...of Perfectly Useless Information
First edition
AuthorMitchell Symons
Original titleThat Book
CountryUnited States - original version British
LanguageEnglish
SubjectUseless information, Trivia, Humour
Genrenon-fiction
PublisherBantam Press 2003 (UK)
William Morrow 2004 (US)
Media typePrint (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages371 p. (US hardback edition)
ISBN0-06-073149-4 (US hardback edition)
OCLC54953153
031.02 22
LC ClassAG106 .S94 2004
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 Mitchell Symons, and published in 2003.

Book Trivia[edit]

Material[edit]

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

Collection[edit]

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."