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|pages=256
|publisher=Ebury Press
|date=6 Sep September 2007
|isbn=978-0091921514
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Among the more tiresome legacies of the 80s, apart from mullets and Tony Hadley, is the category of knowledge known as trivia. You could probably also date the currency of the phrase 'urban myth' from that decade - like the one about Bob Holness playing the saxophone on Gerry Rafferty's ''Baker Street'', or that rather less savoury tale about Mark Almond.
The book is divided into categories such as nature, showbiz, science and the law, the first of these a seemingly inexhaustible source of unlikely truths. Nearly all the phenomena stated in this section turn out to be true.
I won't spoil it by giving away too many of these but if a pub bore ever corners you with an assertion about the capabilities of wasps or the stickiness of geckoes, he probably speaks the truth. As in the book's title, and that of the book's predecessor [[''Bears Can't Run Downhill: And 200 Other Dubious Pub Facts Explained]]'', the perambulatory habits of animals seem a particularly rich source of amazement. So we hear about elephants' similar problems with gradients, and the reverse locomotion of flies, as well as the emu problem mentioned in the title.
Illustrated with amusing cartoons in the deceptively childlike style pioneered by Michael Heath, the book does raise the occasional snort of laughter. One entry gets carried away with the spirit of the pub fact and fabricates away mendaciously, but retains the sliver of plausibility essential to even the most outlandish of these claims.
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