I Used to Know That: Stuff You Forgot From School (I Used to Know That ...)

I Used to Know That: Stuff You Forgot From School (I Used to Know That ...)

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A Sunday Times top-ten title in 2008 and a bestseller ever since, I Used to Know That has continued to delight readers with its pages of forgotten facts from our school days.

I Used to Know That is an ideal and accessible reference guide for adults wanting to brush up on their lost knowledge – or prepare for a pub quiz!

If you've forgotten the capital city of Chile; the basics of osmosis; how to solve a quadratic equation; who wrote the famous poem about daffodils; the use of a conjunction or the number of continents in the world, I Used to Know That is guaranteed to provide all the answers.

Can you remember how photosynthesis works?
What about quadratic equations?
Or the names of all five Bennet sisters in Pride and Prejudice?

This witty and insightful book gathers together all the facts, figures and formulae we only half-remember from school, and is guaranteed to have you exclaiming, ‘I used to know that!’

  • Publisher: ‎ Michael O'Mara 2023
  • Language: ‎ English
  • Paperback
  • 192 pages
  • ISBN-10: 1843176556
  • ISBN-13: ‎ 978-1843176558
  • Dimensions: ‎ 12.7 x 1.27 x 20.32 cm

About the author;

Caroline Taggart worked in publishing as an editor of popular non-fiction for thirty years before being asked by Michael O'Mara Books to write I Used to Know That, which became a Sunday Times bestseller. Following that she was co-author of My Grammar and I (or should that be 'Me'?), and wrote a number of other books about words and English usage. She has appeared frequently on television and on national and regional radio, talking about language, grammar and whether or not Druids Cross should have an apostrophe.
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