THIS IS HOW IT’S DONEUncle John’s book is big on lists. Most pages have a lot of short, punchy paragraphs with a heading that might draw you in. Or not. The joy of this book is that there’s lots of it and if you don’t care for the stuff on one page you can move right on to the next.THINGS HERE CA...
Picture this- youre on the john, workin' hard. Many days and nights go by when each time you have to go to the bathroom, like my brother, you are holding your legs tight and squirming to find something to read before you . . . do your business. Look no further. Behold, it's the legendary lost bat...
Uncle John’s Ahh-Inspiring Bathroom Reader, Uncle John’s all-new 15th edition, sheds a light on everything under the sun and over the moon. From obscure history to classic wordplay to dumb crooks to inspiring quotations, you never know what you’re going to read next! Since 1987, the Bathroom Read...
Ant is a big fan of these books, so I got him a couple for Christmas and one for myself. I loved it and couldn't put it down. I don't even know if I chose the right version here- there are so many- but it was so interesting and covered so many different topics. I read it cover to cover instead...
This will serve as a review to all of the Uncle John's Bathroom Readers, not just this particular volume.So, do you like interesting facts? What about funny stories? Humorous quotes? And do you sometimes need something to read on the can? Well then I have the perfect set of books for you.Uncl...
Our first all-new edition to top 500 pages, this was the Bathroom Reader that made the publishing world stand up and take notice—these guys are here to stay. Also appearing for the first time in Giant 10th Anniversary is our famous “Extended Sitting Section,” a series of extra-long articles for t...
This collection of slap shots, high sticks, and toothless grins offers fans everything they love about hockey: its colorful history, legendary players, and enough hard-hitting trivia to occupy even the most avid stat head. The latest title in the new Uncle John’s series dedicated to the wide (and...
This series is North America's best-selling children's bathroom reader series.
Featuring hundreds of amusing illustrations, fun fonts, and easy-to-read content, this book is filled with bite-sized tidbits divided into fun categories covering a wide range of subjects. For example, there’s Green Stuff (“Grasshoppers hear with the fronts of their knees”) and Microscopic Miracl...
The dedicated researchers at the Bathroom Readers’ Institute return with some fast-acting, long-lasting relief for fans who have been suffering without a new infusion of trademark trivia and obscure facts. Flush with all the usual useless (and occasionally useful) information readers have come to...
Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Extraordinary Book of Facts combines the most intriguing, enlightening material from nine previous Bathroom Reader favorites into one concise volume. Flush with delightfully useless — and sometimes even useful — information about sports, movies, music, politics, Ameri...
With Uncle John's Curiously Compelling Bathroom Reader, the dedicated folks at the Bathroom Readers’ Institute offer fast-acting, long-lasting relief for their legions of fans who have been suffering without a new infusion of the series’ trademark trivia and obscure and fascinating facts. Number ...
This volume—Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader Wonderful World of Odd—exposes the best of the weirdest news, facts, and fun from all over the world. Since 1987, the Bathroom Readers’ Institute has led the movement to stand up for those who sit down and read in the bathroom (and everywhere else for that...
It's our 16th year running (so to speak) I mean, we're still going . . . . A light-hearted, easy-to-read collection of facts, quotes, history, science, word-origins, pop culture, gossip, humor...and more! Organized by length-"Short" (a quick read), "Medium" (1-3 pages), "Long" (for those visits w...
Here’s more mushy trivia. • Mushrooms reproduce by launching microscopic “spores”—airborne seedlike structures—into the air. There are probably 10,000 spores in the air around you right now, many of which will land in wet dirt and grow into mushrooms. • Mushrooms eat by extending tiny tubes calle...
They played around with sucrose molecules, manipulating them into different configurations in hopes that they would be more efficiently absorbed by the digestive tract. As is often the case, the science went horribly awry, and instead of creating something that would improve the lives of tiny, vu...
means “near,” and when we’re talking about the end of planet Earth, nigh can be anywhere from this evening to millions of years from now. Doomsayers have been predicting the imminent end of the world for centuries. Here are a few of the more interesting predictions.APARTIAL HISTORY OF THE LAST DA...
Minutes from now, he was expected to walk into the boardroom. His team would be there staring back at him; a staff of fourteen. Soon to be a staff of ten. This was not Kyle’s call. It was an executive cost-cutting measure aimed at preserving profit margins. Sweat glistened across his forehead. Hi...
They eat…and eat…and then eat some more. But there’s more to it than that. (Did we mention they eat?) BACKGROUNDSumo wrestling, often called Japan’s national sport, is said to date back to prehistoric times, though it only gained popularity as a spectator sport in the earl...
PERRY MASON (1933) As a youngster, author Erle Stanley Gardner subscribed to a boy’s fiction magazine, The Youth’s Companion, and learned a lot about writing from the stories he read. The Youth’s Companion was published by Perry Mason and Company. SPENSER: FOR HIRE (1973) Robert B. Parker first i...
They have cost individuals, companies, and governments billions in software, security, data replacement, and lost productivity. Here are some of the most infamous viruses to date. ELK CLONER (1981) Richard Skrenta, a 15-year-old high school freshman, gave his friends some disks of computer games....
CottonFirst people to cultivate cotton: a prehistoric community that lived in the Indus River valley in modern-day Pakistan, China, and India around 4000 B.C.During the Middle Ages in Europe, people knew that imported cotton came from a plant, but they didn’t know what the plant looked like. Some...
2 Times the Phillies have won the World Series: 1980 and 2008. 3 Official team names in the franchise’s history: Quakers (1883–89), Phillies (1890–1942, 1945–present), Blue Jays (1943–44). 4 Number of times Phillies pitcher Steve Carlton won the National League Cy Young Award: 1972, 1977, 1980, a...
We’re not bluffing. Be sure to bet on this poker-playing mama. In the never-ending quest of working moms to find the best way to raise a family and earn a living, moms have moved into such traditionally male-dominated careers as steel workers, firefighters, and investment bankers. But card sharks...
First up—two questions about beer. Pewter to the People Why do German beer steins come with hinged lids? Measure for Measure How many pints in a firkin? Pewter to the People To keep the flies out. In the Middle Ages, Germany experienced several massive fly swarms at the same time Europe was suf...
In 2003 Michael Machetti sued Riverside, California, tattoo parlor Bullseye Tattoo. Misspelled tattoo? No—Machetti went in to have his “F* * * YOU” neck tattoo altered into “666.” He charged that in the process of making the alteration, the shop somehow infected him with a rare disease called nec...
THE SMALLEST Bigger isn’t necessarily better. Want proof? Have a look at these cool things in really small packages. …HORSE In 2006, Guinness World Records officially named Thumbelina—a 17½-inch-tall horse from Missouri—the world’s smallest. She weighed only 8½ pounds when she was born (about the...
. . right? Not! We’re giving this ice cream manufacturer a Trojan Horse Award for sneaky advertising. A BRONX CHEER FOR ICE CREAM The Bronx is home to Yankee Stadium and a world-famous zoo, but it’s not legendary for being the birthplace of a popular ice cream. It should be. Reuben Mattus, a Poli...
Three hundred artists and architects publicly objected to its design and the fact that it looked “like a gigantic black smokestack.” The Eiffel Tower was originally designed as a temporary entrance arch for the 1889 World’s Fair. Postcard historians credit the Eiffel Tower (and the tourists amaze...
REPTILES• Iguanas can stay underwater for nearly 30 minutes.• Crocodiles dig underground burrows in extremely hot weather…and can live in them for several months without eating or drinking.• All reptiles are vertebrates, meaning they have a backbone. And except for snakes and a few lizards, they ...
To conserve valuable space, writing it was soon shortened to qo, which caused another problem—readers might mistake it for the ending of a word. So, they squashed the letters into a symbol: a lowercase q on top of an o. Over time the o shrank to a dot and the q to a squiggle, giving us our curren...