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The Second Book of General Ignorance

Everything You Think You Know Is (Still) Wrong

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The Second Book of General Ignorance

By: John Lloyd, John Mitchinson
Narrated by: Julian Elfer
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About this listen

Just when you thought that it was safe to start showing off again, John Lloyd and John Mitchinson are back with another busload of mistakes and misunderstandings. Here is a new collection of simple, perfectly obvious questions you'll be quite certain you know the answers to. Whether it's history, science, sports, geography, literature, language, medicine, the classics, or common wisdom, you'll be astonished to discover that everything you thought you knew is still hopelessly wrong.

For example, do you know who made the first airplane flight? How many legs does an octopus have? How much water should you drink every day? What is the chance of tossing a coin and it landing on heads? What happens if you leave a tooth in a glass of Coke overnight? What is house dust mostly made from? What was the first dishwasher built to do? What color are oranges? Who in the world is most likely to kill you?

Whatever your answers to the questions above, you can be sure that everything you think you know is wrong. The Second Book of General Ignorance is a must-have for everyone who knows they don't know everything and an ideal stick with which to beat people who think they do.

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it's slightly more focused on UK stuff than id like but most of the facts are really interesting

superb narration, lots of good facts

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A dream come true, a book full of interesting facts and they do it so well

Brilliant book

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liked all of it. love information about different things and the narration was great. love the tv show QI also

just facts

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A humorous take on factual trivia. Detailed enough to correct many long-accepted inaccuracies. I listened to it nightly when going to sleep, but that may not work for everyone if you're the type who gets too interested/stimulated by the content.

a fun listen that you can stop at any time and pick up again later.

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A fantastic and enjoyable way to learn new limits to your ignorance. Unable to stop listening.

Thoroughly enjoyable

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I don't think I've ever felt quite so ignorant as I did listening to this book! LOL. Was well worth it though. I now stand corrected on pretty much everything I ever thought I knew. Didn't want to stop listening in the narration was excellent. Well done!

Extremely informative.

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