The Bathroom Readers' Institute
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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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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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You think you know New York? Fugeddaboutit! Uncle John knows New York, though, and he's taking readers on a whirlwind tour of America's greatest city…this time in Technicolor! Uncle John's Plunges into New York (Illustrated Edition) is full of cool trivia and fascinating facts about the Big Apple, but now it's jam-packed with photographs and illustrations too! What kind of information, you ask? Read all about…• The incredible natural phenomenon...
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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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With this all-new 21st edition, Uncle John's Unsinkable Bathroom Reader, Uncle John and his crack staff of writers prove that after more than two decades in the business, they're still at the top of their game. Who else but Uncle John could tell you about the tapeworm diet, 44 things to do with a coconut, and the history of the Comstock Lode? Uncle John rules the world of information and humor, so get ready to be thoroughly entertained. Read all about…...
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Take a seat and settle in-it's a gigantic treasury of trivia and humor for our twenty-fifth (is that porcelain?) anniversary!
IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award Gold Winner in Humor
ForeWord Reviews Book of the Year Awards, Honorable Mention in Humor
"Fully Loaded" is putting it mildly. This behemoth of a book is overflowing with incredible stories, surprising facts, weird news, little-known origins, forgotten history, fun wordplay, and everything...
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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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Beauty pageants, bad musicals, bizarre diseases, and more: it's all covered in this collection of fascinating trivia and full-color pictures!
It's finally here: the book that Uncle John's fans have been asking for: a full-color, illustrated edition featuring the most entertaining articles from the world's bestselling bathroom trivia series! Hundreds of eye-popping photographs add a new dimension to Uncle John's unique blend of trivia, humor, origins,...
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A wildly entertaining Q&A collection filled with fun facts on everything from science to sports to late-night infomercials.
Find the answers to hundreds of life's most perplexing questions in this entertaining collection from the team behind the multimillion-selling, award-winning Uncle John's Bathroom Readers. Do Geese Get Goose Bumps is filled with simple explanations for complex topics, everything from "Why is air transparent?" to "Why do late-night...
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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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From the amazing to the amusing, this byte-sized collection will bring you the inside stories behind earth-shattering discoveries, accidental inventions, and outlandish studies. Featuring Uncle John's most mind-bending science articles--along with a few all-new "experiments"--this book will make you think, make you laugh, and make you ask yourself, "What the heck were they thinking?" Get ready to cackle like a mad scientist as you uncover the truth...
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The twenty-eighth edition in the bestselling bathroom-reading series is jam-packed with 512 pages of absorbing trivia material.
Uncle John gets a Factastic facelift for the twenty-eighth all-new edition of this beloved book series. All of Uncle John's Bathroom Reader favorites are packed into these 512 glorious pages-from little-known history to the origins of everyday things-plus odd news, weird fads, quirky quotes, mind-bending science, head-scratching...
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A collection of strange-but-true crime tales featuring cops, lawyers, and some very unusual suspects . . .
The fact-finding folks at Bathroom Readers' Institute have rounded up the best cops-and-robber articles we've ever done, plus a rogues' gallery of new offenders. You'll read about dumb crooks and criminal masterminds, mafia henchmen and low-level goons, ancient warriors and Old West gunslingers, crazed cops and jovial judges, and even a...
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Our readers asked for it, and here it is: Uncle John's first collection of his greatest short facts and quick reading material. Open up to any page of Extraordinary Book of Facts and you might find a list of, say, obscure words ('exocannibals' eat enemies; 'indocannibals' eat friends). Flip to another page and there's a whole bunch of facts about how long things take (a yak's gestation period: 258 days). On another page: kid facts (the average four-year-old...
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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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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 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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Get your trivia on the go with this Uncle John's anthology of fun fast facts, includes over twenty-five pages of new content!
Uncle John's New & Improved Briefs is chock-full of thousands of great facts and hundreds of quick hits covering history, origins, blunders, sports, pop science, and entertainment plus a sprinkling of riddles, puns, anagrams, and other classic wordplay. Read about...
• The secrets of top-secret spy lingo
• The monkey that...
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Discover strange gadgets you never knew existed in this volume from the nation's top collector of curious and interesting information!
The writers behind Uncle John's Bathroom Reader present this totally true treasury of amazing gizmos-devilish devices you never knew existed, created by people who thought the world absolutely needed what they had to offer and sell.
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* The onesie that turns your crawling baby into a mop
* The fart-stifling...
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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...