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A delightful and witty treasure trove of utterly useless information by the author of The Things That Nobody Knows.

Most encyclopaedias are boring. They are so packed with worthy but dull facts that a great deal of weird and wonderful material is squeezed out. The Encyclopaedia of Everything Else takes the opposite approach and leaves out all the dreary stuff you can find elsewhere.

The result is the most fascinating, astonishing, varied and utterly useless collection of information ever assembled and organized between two covers. From aardvark tooth bracelets to the genus of tropical weevils known as Zyzzyva, via Mark Twain's views about cabbages, this is a quarter of a million words of sublime pointlessness.



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Highly enjoyable... Captivating and inspiring * New Scientist on THE THINGS THAT NOBODY KNOWS *
Properly researched, and the elegance of its pop-cosmology or pop-biology mini-narratives rivals that of many specialists. It is slyly witty, and pleasingly optimistic. * Guardian on THE THINGS THAT NOBODY KNOWS *

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      Publisher Atlantic Books
      Published 3 November 2022
      ISBN-13 9781838957230
      978-1838957230
      ISBN-10 1838957235
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      Dictionaries, Reference & Language General encyclopaedias Humour Politics, Philosophy & Society General studies and General knowledge

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      A delightful and witty treasure trove of utterly useless information by the author of The Things That Nobody Knows.

      Most encyclopaedias are boring. They are so packed with worthy but dull facts that a great deal of weird and wonderful material is squeezed out. The Encyclopaedia of Everything Else takes the opposite approach and leaves out all the dreary stuff you can find elsewhere.

      The result is the most fascinating, astonishing, varied and utterly useless collection of information ever assembled and organized between two covers. From aardvark tooth bracelets to the genus of tropical weevils known as Zyzzyva, via Mark Twain's views about cabbages, this is a quarter of a million words of sublime pointlessness.



      Trade Review
      Highly enjoyable... Captivating and inspiring * New Scientist on THE THINGS THAT NOBODY KNOWS *
      Properly researched, and the elegance of its pop-cosmology or pop-biology mini-narratives rivals that of many specialists. It is slyly witty, and pleasingly optimistic. * Guardian on THE THINGS THAT NOBODY KNOWS *

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