[Uncle John's Facts and Trivia 01] • Extraordinary Book of Facts 02 - Wise Up!

[Uncle John's Facts and Trivia 01] • Extraordinary Book of Facts 02 - Wise Up!
Authors
Bathroom-Readers'-Institute
Publisher
Portable Press
Tags
humour , reference , yrarbil
ISBN
9781607106739
Date
2009-10-01T00:00:00+00:00
Size
0.57 MB
Lang
en
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Is there any other single book in the universe with this many awesome tidbits of bite-sized information? Nope. And thatOCOs 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. ItOCOs 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 men talk to their cars.

- The melody for Nat King ColeOCOs 1954 hit ?SmileOCO 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 wonOCOt.

- 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!""