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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 031.02
EAN: 9780307394910
ISBN: 0307394913
Label: Harmony
Manufacturer: Harmony
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 288
Publication Date: August 07, 2007
Publisher: Harmony
Release Date: August 07, 2007
Sales Rank: 2404
Studio: Harmony
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Think Magellan was the first man to circumnavigate the globe, baseball was invented in America, Henry VIII had six wives, Mount Everest is the tallest mountain? Wrong, wrong, wrong, and wrong again.
Misconceptions, misunderstandings, and flawed facts finally get the heave-ho in this humorous, downright humiliating book of reeducation based on the phenomenal British bestseller. Challenging what most of us assume to be verifiable truths in areas like history, literature, science, nature, and more,
The Book of General Ignorance is a witty “gotcha” compendium of how little we actually know about anything. It’ll have you scratching your head wondering why we even bother to go to school.
Revealing the truth behind all the things we think we know but don’t, this book leaves you dumbfounded about all the misinformation you’ve managed to collect during your life, and sets you up to win big should you ever be a contestant on Jeopardy! or Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.
Besides righting the record on common (but wrong) myths like Captain Cook discovering Australia or Alexander Graham Bell inventing the telephone, The Book of General Ignorance also gives us the skinny on silly slipups to trot out at dinner parties (Cinderella wore fur, not glass, slippers and chicken tikka masala was invented in Scotland, not India).
Thomas Edison said that we know less than one millionth of one percent about anything: this book makes us wonder if we know even that much.
You’ll be surprised at how much you don’t know! Check out THE BOOK OF GENERAL IGNORANCE for more fun entries and complete answers to the following:
How long can a chicken live without its head?
About two years.
What do chameleons do?
They don’t change color to match the background. Never have; never will. Complete myth. Utter fabrication. Total Lie. They change color as a result of different emotional states.
Who invented champagne?
Not the French.
How many legs does a centipede have?
Not a hundred.
How many toes has a two-toed sloth?
It’s either six or eight.
How many penises does a European earwig have?
a)Fourteen
b)None at all
c)Two (one for special occasions)
d)Mind your own business
Which animals are the best-endowed of all?
Barnacles. These unassuming modest beasts have the longest penis relative to their size of any creature. They can be seven times longer than their body.
What is a rhino’s horn made from?
A rhinoceros horn is not, as some people think, made out of hair.
Who was the first American president?
Peyton Randolph.
What were George Washington’s false teeth made from?
Mostly hippopotamus.
What was James Bond’s favorite drink?
Not the vodka martini.
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- What a fun readI had a good time reading this book. Not only do you find out interesting facts,but the whys and wherefores.If you like the History Channel you'll love this book.I recommend it.
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- Don't believe everything you readI found an error right in the first few paragraphs: the authors take the Nepali name of Mt Everest (Sagarmatha) as Tibetan, and the Tibetan name (Chomolungma) as Nepali. This is such a simple, easily verifiable fact (a quick check with Google or Wikipedia would do) that a competent fact-checker would have corrected it right away. It makes one wonder just how cavalier the authors are about facts.
Or logic for that matter. Example: the authors simply assert that "Chop Suey" was originally ... Read More
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- Quite Interesting, you knowIf you know and like the British Quiz Show 'Quite Interesting' then this book is a must. General Ignorance is a regular part of this hilarious panel quiz hosted by Stephen Fry and the book puts together all the suprising information that the panellists forfeit their hard-earned points supplying a common but wrong answer.
If you don't know QI (make your cable TV get it), then it's still a well-written, informative and amusing collection of facts that are quite contrary to those ones known as General ... Read More
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- FANTASTIC LITTLE KNOWN TRIVIATURNED ME INTO MORE OF A KNOW IT ALL THAN I WAS BEFORE,
GREAT BATHROOM READING!!
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- Fun book, but it too shows some ignorance...This is a thoroughly interesting and fun read. However, awash as I am in my own ignorance, I have detected a few gaffs here and there...such as the authors' claims that a star named Lucy (which allegedly has the heart of a diamond) is precisely located some billions of miles OVER Australia! Anyone with a whit of background in cosmology would recognize that since our Earth is spinning at somewhere around 1,000 mph and is at the same time zipping around the sun at 18 miles a second (give or take a few mps), ... Read More
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