That Book ...of Perfectly Useless Information

That Book ...of Perfectly Useless Information

First edition
Author	Mitchell Symons
Original title	That Book
Language	English
Subject	Useless information, Trivia, Humour
Genre	non-fiction
Publisher	Bantam Press 2003 (UK) William Morrow 2004 (US)
Publication place	United States - original version British
Media type	Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages	371 p. (US hardback edition)
ISBN	0-06-073149-4 (US hardback edition)
OCLC	54953153
Dewey Decimal	031.02 22
LC Class	AG106 .S94 2004
Followed by	This Book ...of More Perfectly Useless Information

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 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 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."