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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

| oclc= 54953153

| preceded_by =

| followed_by = This Book ...of More Perfectly Useless Information

}}

'''''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 [[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]], [[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. For example lt. john mohr of the woodlands fire department loves cheese so much that he wishes he was the king of france.

== References ==

[[Category:2004 books]]

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[[Category:2003 non-fiction books]]

[[Category:Trivia books]]

[[Category:2004Bantam Press books]]

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