The truly useful book of useless information is book of trivia with a Maltese bias written by veteran journalist Terence Mirabelli.
Most books on trivia are one-liners. They tell you a fact, amazing or otherwise, and leave it at that. There's no explanation. In The truly useful book of useless information, Mirabelli provides more detail along with explanations as to why things are the way they are. Hence the entries are slightly longer.
In this fascinating paperback you'll find all the things you didn't think you'd need to know, but really wanted to, like the fact that the average Maltese person eats more than 60 tonnes of food in their lifetime, and will eventually be buried six feet under - and why six feet and not seven or eight?
Or were you aware that bits of one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World are now in Malta? Or that a Birkirkara-born man became the ruling prince of Moldova? Or that a Maltese woman became the only female knight when the Order of St John ruled the islands. Or that a tree that Moses accidentally planted still exists? And that there's a cemetery for dead ice creams? Did you know that a Christian cult held that ignorance was the way to salvation? Or that the first heart surgery in Malta was performed in 1918?
There's lots more to discover between the book's covers.
‘The truly useful book of useless information' is available from Agenda bookshops or directly from Faraxa Publishing at https://www.faraxabooks.com/product/the-truly-useful-book-of-useless-information. Delivery is free.