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    The Mega Book of Useless Information: An Official Usless Information Society Publication

    By Noel Botham

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    Continuing the sensational success of the Useless Information Series, the Official Useless Information Society bring you another essential compendium of everything you never needed but always wanted to know. If you are a lover of the wonderfully pointless, then this is the book for you.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJohn Blake
    Release dateNov 1, 2010
    ISBN9781857829273
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    The Mega Book of Useless Information: An Official Usless Information Society Publication
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    Noel Botham

    Noel Botham is chairman and founding member of the Useless Information Society. Botham and the rest of his team lurk mostly around London.

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