The Onions Encyclopedia Was 2 Years, 10,000 Entries in the Making

This week saw a launch of epic proportions, where a product created by geniuses was finally released after many years of tinkering to a grateful public.

The iPad Mini? No, we speak of the Onion Book of Known Knowledge, a 1,500-entry encyclopedia of sheer brilliance from the Internet's most awesome fake news source. As the book's own blurb announces, it has arrived "just in time for the death of the print industry."

Although the humor shelves of your local bookstore are (or were, if your local bookstore is no more) stuffed with Onion publications, this is only the third of them that contains entirely original content. Our Dumb Century (a fake 20th century history, published in 1999)…
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