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Bite-sized bits of information to give you the edge on trivia night-from crime and punishment to the rich and famous to ghosts, ghouls, oddballs, and more!
Packed with more than 400 pages, Uncle John's Bathroom Reader: Attack of the Factoids is a fact-a-palooza of obscure information. Like what, you ask? Here are just a few extraordinary examples:* Bats always turn left when they exit a cave.* In the 1960s, astronauts trained for moon voyages...
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Uncle John's hard-hitting hockey book was such a success that we decided to send it back to the weight room to get beefed up for a new season. Now updated and expanded with 70 new pages, this collection of slap shots, penalty kills, and toothless grins offers hockey fans everything they love about this great game: its colorful history, legendary players, and enough trivia to satisfy even the most avid stat head. Read about… * The true origin of...
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Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, and the Coast Guard! The patriotic folks at the BRI have stormed the proverbial beaches of Normandy and beyond to bring you this salute to the greatest force for good on planet Earth! Make your way through the ranks and read about the history, triumphs, trials, and humor of those who serve. At nearly 500 pages, this is the book you want by your side while you wait it out in the fox hole. Read about… * The Semper Fi...
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History repeats itself as Uncle John presents another volume of funny stories and fascinating facts about the past!
For our historical trivia collection number two, we dug ever deeper into our bottomless vaults to bring you more of history's most colorful characters, cultural milestones, funniest mishaps, and earth-shattering events. More than 500 pages of great stories, fascinating facts, and fun quizzes await you.
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Is there any other single book in the universe with this many awesome tidbits of bite-sized information? Nope. And that's a fact! At nearly 400 pages (with a handy index for your fact-seeking convenience), Wise Up! is a must-have for anyone who likes their information on the go. It's organized into hundreds of topics-everything from sports and entertainment to word origins and science. Here are but a few of the facts awaiting you:* More women than...
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An entertaining trivia compendium flush with fun facts about all things science.
Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Plunges into the Universe is your anecdote to boring science textbooks. Uncle John and his loony lab partners will take you back to the Big Bang and forward to the distant future. You'll see the science in everything around (and inside) you, and learn the truth about the most egregious science myths (such as-you can't "sweat like a pig" because...
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An entertaining trivia compendium flush with fun facts about all things music.
From boogie-woogie to Beethoven, from Prince to Pavarotti, from the bards of Broadway to the rebels of rock 'n' roll-it's all here. Uncle John has created this harmonious collection of tuneful tales for music lovers everywhere.
Uncle John has proven once again that he is in tune with our legion of loyal readers. This 516-page musical masterpiece dedicated to all things...
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For more than 25 years, there's always been a home in Uncle John's Bathroom Reader for those stories about doctor visits or routine surgeries gone horribly wrong--the wrong limb getting amputated, the wrong person getting a transplant, the nurse who didn't notice her patient had died…for three days. Because we never get tired of reading about big boo-boos (as long as they're happening to someone else), here is a whole book of the troubling and funny...
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For 25 years, there's always been a home in Uncle John's Bathroom Reader for those times in life you wish you could take back--"oops" moments, embarrassing accidents, spectacular failures. Because we never get tired of reading about unfortunate accidents (as long as they're happening to someone else), here is a whole book of "the best of the worst," the troubling and funny stories of things got terribly awry. Read all about:* The little math error...
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Lots and lots of lists of quick and quirky historical facts, from the Stone Age to the Internet Age!
Leave it to Uncle John to find a new way to make history fun and exciting! This quirky collection of lists is the latest volume in the Bathroom Reader's bestselling history series. Over 500 fact-packed pages will breathe life into history's most famous (and most unusual) stories. History buffs, trivia hounds, and readers looking for an educational...
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A compendium of funny feline facts and strange stories even more entertaining than a stuffed mouse on a stick!
The relationship between cats and us lower animals cannot be summed up in mere words, but leave it to Uncle John to try anyway. Curl up with the Cat Lover's Companion, and you'll explore the unique, amusing, and mysterious side of the common housecat (Felis domesticus).
Read about the origins of your favorite breeds, meet some kitty movie...
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They say that anybody who wants to be president should be automatically qualified for the job, and after reading this special "Chief Executive" edition of Uncle John's Bathroom Reader, you'll see why. We've dug up the most compelling and confounding dirt...er...statistics on these otherwise ordinary men who achieved great power. Which ones used it wisely? Which ones squandered it? And which ones would have rather been fishing? You'll get an up-close...
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Celebrate the winners of this competition for Weirdest, Wildest, and Most Hilarious Trivia of the Year.
Forget the Oscars, Grammys, and Golden Globes-after two decades of producing interesting and mind-boggling stories-the folks at the Bathroom Readers' Institute have come up with their own collection of pop-culture awards!
This unique volume provides a new way to recognize some of the world's greatest (and oddest) achievements. Where else could...
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The twenty-seventh Bathroom Reader in the beloved, bizarre trivia series with more than fifteen million copies in print!
At a whopping 544 pages, Uncle John's Canoramic Bathroom Reader is overflowing with everything that Bathroom Readers' Institute fans have come to expect from this bestselling trivia series: fascinating history, silly science, obscure origins... plus fads, blunders, wordplay, quotes, and a few surprises (such as some of the "creative"...
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A humorous guide to surviving in the wilderness, that also might make you want to avoid the wilderness forever.
For more than twenty-five years, Uncle John's Bathroom Reader has helped you learn amazing things you didn't know. Now, Uncle John will show you how to do things you didn't know how to do . . . and probably should never, never, never actually do, unless you're in a survival situation and really, really, really need to do. It's How to Fight...
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The trivia gurus behind the Uncle John's Bathroom Reader series plumb the depths of history in this compendium of easily digestible diversions.
Whether you're a history buff, or you just like reading great stories, you'll see the past in a whole new light after reading Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Plunges into History. Uncle John uncovers the truth behind some of history's most persistent myths and flushes out information you were never taught...
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