Uncle John's Bathroom Reader WISE UP!: An Elevating Collection of Quick Facts and Incredible Curiosities

About this book

The weirdest wittiest wackiest facts and trivia from the Bathroom Reader series are packed into this new volume. Is there any other single book in the universe with this many awesome tidbits of bite-sized information? Nope. And thats 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. Its organized into hundreds of topicseverything from sports and entertainment to word origins and science. Here are but a few of the facts awaiting you: More women than men talk to their cars. The melody for Nat King Coles 1954 hit Smile was composed by Charlie Chaplin. Acid rain was first identified and named in 1852. What is your buccal cavity? Your mouth. There are no skunks in Newfoundland. The average Super Bowl party has 18 people. When dropped in water a fresh egg will sink; a stale one wont. The average newborn baby spends 113 minutes a day crying. Pepper was so valuable during Elizabethan times that it was sold by the grain. Fossilized termite farts have been preserved in amber. And thousands more!