# The Book of General Ignorance

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- Authors: [John Mitchinson](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-mitchinson), [John Lloyd](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-lloyd)
- Publisher: crown
- ISBN: 978-03-0739-491-0
- Pages: 288
- Published: 2007-08-07
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Hardcover

## Description

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A shockingly counterintuitive book of trivia that cuts through the misconceptions that most of us call “facts” to show how wrong we are about . . . well, everything....