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| genre = [[non-fiction]]

| subject = [[Information]], [[Trivia]], [[Humour]]

| publisher = [[HarperCollins]] (USA) & [[Transworld Publishers]] (UK)

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

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

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

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

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'''''That Book ...of Perfectly Useless Information''''', 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]], [[dates]], [[years]], [[toilets]], [[songs]], [[bands]], and [[information]] normally in the form of [[lists]].

===Collection===

In the [[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.

[[Category:2004 books]]