There is a name for that bit between your nose and your lips – below your nasal septum comes the philtrum. There's a correct scientific name for the tummy-grumbling noises we make when things leave our stomach for lower down. Heck, there's even a scientific name for those circular grooves on top of a Frisbee.
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{{newreview
|author=Justin Scroggie
|title=Tic-tac Teddy Bears and Teardrop Tattoos
|rating=4
|genre=Trivia
|summary=Signs are everywhere. I wasn't really one of those who thought our roads were littered with too many traffic signs until the day I was driven past a pair of speed regulation signs, positioned at the exit end of a one-way street but facing the illegal way up it. Not all signs, of course, are quite as unnecessary, or indeed as blatantly visible, which is where this pictorial guide to countless coded messages, signifiers and other similar factoids comes in.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340976489</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Angus Cargill (Editor)
|title=Hang the DJ: An Alternative Book of Music Lists
|rating=4
|genre=Trivia
|summary=Ah, the music list... balm to pop obsessives (see Nick Hornby's ''High Fidelity''), makeweight of copy-starved magazine editors, and staple of self-indulgent writers (see ''31 Songs'', also by Nick Hornby). The contributors to this volume fall mainly into the latter category. No fewer than thirty five of them supply their musical top tens, ranging from the fanatical to the frivolous, via the frankly frightening.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571241727</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Sam Jordison
|title=Sod That!: 103 Things Not To Do Before You Die
|rating=4
|genre=Trivia
|summary=Without sounding like a braggart, I have done some pleasant things in life. I've caught the first bus up to Machu Picchu, and shared the sunrise with only the llamas. I've eaten strange things while on a full fortnight tour of Iceland. But closer to home, were I to have a list, there would be many things left on it – I've been nowhere near Bath, or York; I've never seen the film ET, which for a man of my age is something of a claim to fame.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409100553</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Ian Crofton
|title=History Without the Boring Bits
|rating=5
|genre=History
|summary=I was never one for history, and in fact left the dregs of a history teacher in tatters when I scraped through with a D. Still, history is an odd thing – written by the winners of course, and annoyingly biased in my mind towards the plain. There's no real reason to remember the order of Henry VIII's six wives, but we can only relish the one credited with polydactylism, a third nipple and whatnot (the second one, in fact – whoever that was).
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847243746</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Kathleen Burk and Michael Bywater
|title=Is This Bottle Corked? The Secret Life of Wine
|rating=4
|genre=Trivia
|summary=Now, I'm the first person to admit I am not a wine buff. I know a lot more now than I did before my current relationship, but she is right to say I have a very masculine (ie dead weak) sense of smell. Added to that a blunt sense of taste and I'm left saying I know what I like when I drink it, and that's it.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571241743</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Stevyn Colgan
|title=Joined-up Thinking: How to Connect Everything to Everything Else
|rating=4
|genre=Trivia
|summary=I am in this book. And so therefore are you. So why don't I like it quite as much as I should?
To be more honest, neither of us are in this book, although we could well be. It is a trivia collection based on attesting the feeling that everything is linked to everything and everyone else, if only you know how. Thus the chapters introduce us to item A, which is linked to item B, which relates to C, whose story is incomplete without D, and so on and lo and behold, before you know it you're back at A, having had no idea where we were going.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230712207</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Dr Robert Vanderplank
|title=Uglier Than A Monkey's Armpit
|rating=3.5
|genre=Trivia
|summary=Now I've always been one for delivering a nice meaty insult. And if you think otherwise then you're just a #####ing ******** of a !!!!!!!!!!, with a &%&%&% for a $$$$$$. But I've been brought up with the usual British malaise when it comes to learning foreign languages, and so beyond knowing that ''Leche!'' is a bit meaty in Spanish, I could not help to cuss and swear like whatever other languages might have for trooper.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330464485</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Tom Hodgkinson
|title=The Book of Idle Pleasures
|rating=4.5
|genre=Trivia
|summary=We've all heard the clichés about modern life. You know – technology was meant to free us from drudgery. Instead we've become its slaves and work longer hours than ever. We're overloaded with means of communication but few of us know our neighbours, etc, etc. On hearing these, most of us shrug and carry on with our busy, busy lives. But now and then, something reminds us of who and what we are. This delightful, unassuming book is one of those things.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091923328</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Georgina Phillips
|title=Ouch! Extreme Feats of Human Endurance
|rating=4.5
|genre=Trivia
|summary=Everything from Shackleton to Ellen MacArthur, by way of the Japanese word for fried rice-field grasshopper, and 32 hour long after dinner speeches. ''Ouch!'' contains fascinating trivia on every page that children will love to repeat back to you at length.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330454056</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=Any Question Answered
|author=AQA 63336
|genre=Trivia
|rating=3
|summary=Did you know that if you have a question, any question, you can text AQA on 63336 and their team of dedicated researchers will find the answer and text it back to you? It will cost you just £1 and AQA have now answered over nine million questions. That's a lot of questions and the answers didn't just disappear into the ether. AQA have them all stored away.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846680824</amazonuk>
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