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The Second Book of General Ignorance

Everything You Think You Know Is (Still) Wrong

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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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Turns out not to be the case. Well researched and well delivered. A lot of info is packed in so you do have to listen or you miss half of what is being said.

Everything you thought you knew….

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What a lot of things we think we know are completely wrong 😅 Facinating facts...I just wish I could remember some of them 🙏

Information Overload !!

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I love listening to a rich fund of clever trivia. I love hearing Julian Elfer reading. QI is great but GI is a brilliant listen.

Love my ignorance

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As a fan of QI and miscellaneous facts, I loved this! I had to check a few of the claims which sounded dubious and decidedly unlikely (some are still in this category). Above all else it is a highly entertaining list of things you do not need to know and which is therefore essential listening.

loved it

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It’s a mix of references to the show, which are like interspersed in a big winding interconnected list of interesting facts.

The narrators voice and delivery is very pleasant so it’s a good listen while you’re doing something else.

Interesting

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