Most encyclopaedias are boring. They are so packed with worthy but dull
facts that a great deal of weird and wonderful material is squeezed out.
The Encyclopaedia of Everything Else takes the opposite approach and
leaves out all the dreary stuff you can find elsewhere. The result is
the most fascinating, astonishing, varied and utterly useless collection
of information ever assembled and organized between two covers. From
aardvark tooth bracelets to the genus of tropical weevils known as
Zyzzyva, via Mark Twain's views about cabbages, this is a quarter of a
million words of sublime pointlessness.