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{{infobox Book | | name = That Book ...of Perfectly Useless Information

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| orig title = That Book

{{infobox Book | | name = That Book ...of Perfectly Useless Information

| orig titletitle_orig = That Book

| translator =

| image = That Book ...of Perfectly Useless Information.jpg

| caption = First edition

| author = [[Mitchell Symons]]

| cover_artist =

| country = [[United States]] - original version [[United Kingdom|British]]

| language = [[English language|English]]

| series =

| genre = [[non-fiction]]

| subject = [[InformationUseless information]], [[Trivia]], [[Humour]]

| publisher = [[HarperCollinsBantam Press]] 2003 (USAUK)<br>[[William &Morrow Transworld(publisher)|William PublishersMorrow]] 2004 (UKUS)

| release_date = [[1 December]] [[2004]] (USA)

| media_type = Print ([[Hardcover|Hardback]] & [[Paperback]])

| pages = 371 p. (US hardback edition)

| isbn = ISBN 0-06-073149-4
| isbn_note = (US hardback edition)

| dewey= 031.02 22

| congress= AG106 .S94 2004

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'''''That Book ...of Perfectly Useless Information''''',<ref name="News0504172">{{Cite news |date=2005-04-17 |title=Some Books Answer Questions You Might Never Have thought To Ask |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-news-herald-some-books-answer-questi/175381573/ |access-date=2025-06-27 |newspaper=The News-Herald |___location=Morganton, North Carolina |page=27 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> commonly abbreviated as "That Book" (the title it was published under in Britain) is a [[book]] written by [[writer]] and [[journalist]] [[Mitchell Symons]], and published in [[2004]]2003.

==Book Trivia==

===Material===

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]], [[Musical ensemble|bands]], and [[information]] normally in the form of lists.

===Collection===

In the [[Acknowledgment (creative arts and sciences)|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.''". Interestingly, Symons has previously published somewhat similar books.

== References ==

[[Category:2004 books]]

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[[Category:2003 non-fiction books]]

[[Category:Trivia books]]

[[Category:2004Bantam Press books]]

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