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BESTSELLER The world's most entertaining and useless self-help guide from the brilliant mind
behind the wildly popular webcomic xkcd and the million-selling What If? and Thing Explainer
For any task you might want to do there's a right way a wrong way and a way so monumentally
bad that no one would ever try it. How To is a guide to the third kind of approach. It's full
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