If you still believe that Atlas carried the Earth on his shoulders, that Nero played his lyre while Rome burned, that Henry VIII had six wives, that champagne was invented by the French, that Everest is the highest mountain in the world, that camels store water in their humps, and that humans have five senses, then you really need this book. Urgently.

Thomas Edison said that we don't know even one millionth of 1% of anything; Mark Twain believed that it takes 8 million years to acquire a thorough knowledge of mathematics alone; Woody Allen said that some people drink greedily from the river of knowledge, while others just gargle.

The "Book of Total Ignorance" sheds abundant light on a question that has preoccupied philosophers, scientists, writers, politicians, and every thinking person older than an infant throughout History: "what is truth and what are fairy tales?"
An extensive, enjoyable, and above all revealing catalog of misconceptions, errors, and myths in the entire field of "acquired knowledge," which will make you wonder why anyone bothers to go to school.