Book description
Did you know THAT:
The first ready-to-eat breakfast cereal was Shredded Wheat in 1893
(it beat Kellogg's Corn Flakes by just five years)
Scarlett Johansson, Ashton Kutcher and Simon Cowell all have twin brothers.
Everton were the first British football club to introduce a stripe
down the side of their shorts.
The word DUDE was coined by Oscar Wilde and his friends. It is a
combination of the words 'duds' and 'attitude'.
Well you do now! Filled with fantastic facts and figures to amaze
and intrigue . . . once you start reading you'll be hooked for hours!
Mitchell Symons was born in 1957 in London and educated at Mill Hill
School and the LSE, where he studied just enough law to get a Third.
Since leaving BBC TV, where he was a researcher and then a director, he
has worked as a writer, broadcaster and journalist. He was a principal
writer of early editions of the board game Trivial Pursuit and has
devised many television formats. Currently he writes an award-winning
weekly column for the
Sunday Express.
