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Preface
Why Did Pirates Love Parrots?
Why Do Packing Peanuts Come in Such Strange Shapes?
Why Can’t You Buy Grape Ice Cream?
Why Don’t You Ever Hear Giraffes Vocalize? Do They Ever Make a Sound?
Why Do Some Slot Machines Use Fruit Symbols?
Why Does Lightning Have a Zigzag Pattern?
Why Do Men Have Domain Over the Family Barbecue?
Why Do Bats Roost Upside Down? What Prevents Them from Falling Down?
Why Are Most Bibles Printed in Two Columns?
Why Do Bottles Have Necks?
Why Is the Pitcher’s Mound Elevated on a Baseball Diamond? And Come to Think of It, Why Is There a Pitcher’s Mound in the First Place?
Why Are Most Psychics Women?
Who Was Monterey Jack, and Why Is a Cheese Named After Him?
Why Is the Moon Sometimes Visible During the Day?
How Do They Get the Paper Tag into Hershey Kisses? And Why Are They Called Kisses?
How Does the Vending Machine Know When It’s Sunday and That the Newspaper Is More Expensive?
What Happens to Olives After the Oil Is Squeezed Out?
Do Ostriches Swim?
When You Switch Chairs with Someone, Why Does the Seat Sometimes Feel Warm?
What Accounts for the Different Shapes of Cheeses? Why Is Cheddar Rectangular While Brie and Provolone Are Round?
What Does the “D” in D-Day Stand For?
Why Is an Elephant’s “Nose” Called a Trunk?
Why Are American Football Fields 53 1 / 3 Yards Wide?
Why Do Books, Legal and Financial Documents, Manuals, Pamphlets, Musical Scores, and Standardized Tests Sometimes Have Pages That Say: “This Page Intentionally Left Blank”?
In Bowling, Why Is a Strike on the “Wrong” Side of the Headpin Called a “Brooklyn Strike”?
Why Are the Number 13 and Friday the Thirteenth Considered Unlucky?
Since Doughnut Holes Are So Popular, Why Can’t We Buy Bagel Holes?
Is There Any Logic to the Pattern of Train Whistles? Why Do You Often Hear a Signal of Long-Long-Short-Long?
Why Does Dog Food Have to Smell So Awful?
In Track Events with Staggered Starts, Why Do the Outside Runners Cut to the Inside Immediately Rather Than a More Gradual, Straight Line?
Are Brussels Sprouts Really from Brussels?
How Did They Mark Years Before the Birth of Christ? And How Did They Mark Years in Non-Christian Civilizations?
Why Are There More Windows Than Rows in Commercial Airlines? Why Aren’t the Windows Aligned with the Rows of Seats?
How Do Audio Cassette Decks “Know” When To Go into Auto-Reverse?
Do Real Artists Line Up the Object To Be Painted by Putting Up the Thumb of Their Outstretched Arm? If So, Why?
Why Does Store-Bought Bread Often Have Two Mounds on Top with a Channel in Between?
Why Does Water Vapor in the Sky Clump into Clouds Instead of Diffusing Evenly Throughout the Atmosphere?
Why Is Carbonated Water Called Club Soda?
Why Are There Holes in the Deposit Envelopes for Automated Teller Machines?
Why Do Women’s Hips Sway When They Walk? Is This Intentional?
Unimponderables—What Are Your Ten Most Frequently Asked Irritating Questions (FAIQ)?
Why Do Drive-Up ATMs Have Braille Markings?
Do Blind People Dream? If So, Do They Dream in Color?
Why, Unlike Other Sports, Do Baseball Managers Wear the Same Uniform as the Players?
How Many Licks Does It Take To Get to the Center of a Tootsie Pop?
How Does the Hair on Your Head and Chin Know To Grow Long, But the Hair on Your Eyebrows or Arms Stays Short?
Why Do We Park on Driveways and Drive on Parkways?
Why Do They Use Sterilized Needles for Lethal Injections to Prisoners? Why Do They Use Rubbing Alcohol on Their Arms?
Why Did Kamikaze Pilots Wear Helmets?
Why Are “Black Boxes” Orange?
If You Can Answer the Questions in Your Book, Shouldn’t They Be Called “Ponderables” Instead of “Imponderables”?
Why Do the U.S. and Other Navies Use a Fouled Anchor as Their Symbol?
Why Are Computer Circuit Boards Green?
Why Do Wet Dogs Go Out of Their Way To Shake Off the Moisture in Front of Their Master?
Why Is a Square Boxing Area Called a “Ring”?
Why Does Iced Tea Get Cloudy?
What’s Medicinal About a Medicine Ball? And What Do They Stuff in Medicine Balls To Make Them So Heavy?
What Is the White, Usually Oval Patch Found on the Bottom of McDonald’s Hamburger Buns?
Why Do Some Places, Such as Newfoundland, Australia, India, and Parts of the Arab World, Have Half-Time Zones? Why Do Some Large Countries Have Only One Time Zone?
How Did the Candy Snickers Get Its Name?
Why Do Motorcyclists, Especially Those Riding Harley-Davidsons, Rev Their Engines While Waiting at Stoplights?
Why Are Salmon Pink?
Why Do Parrots and Other Birds Mimic Human Speech and Other Sounds?
Why Are Portholes Round?
Now We Know Why Ships’ Portholes Are Round. Why Are Airplane Windows in the Passenger Cabins Oval?
Why Don’t Trains Have Cabooses Anymore?
Do Birds Sweat?
Why Is the Earth’s Core Still Hot?
Why Do More Men Snore Than Women?
Why Do Vultures “Waste Time” by Circling Their Dead Prey Instead of Swooping In and Chowing Down Immediately?
What’s the Purpose of the “SysRq” Key on Most Computer Keyboards?
Why Do Taxicab Drivers Often Put Their Car in Park While Waiting at a Stoplight?
Where Do Telephone Companies and Utilities Obtain Telephone Poles? Are They Special Logs?
Why Do Telephone Poles Extend Far Above the Highest Wire or Crosspiece?
Why Does a Can of Diet Coke Float in Water While a Can of Coca-Cola Sinks?
Why Do Male Figure-Skating Announcers on Television Wear Tuxedos?
Why Is It More Tiring To Stand Than To Walk? Why Is It Hard To Stand Still on Two Legs?
If Thanksgiving Is a Harvest Celebration, Why Is It Held in Late November?
Why Do Self-Service Gas Stations Usually Disable the Automatic Handle on Gas Pumps?
Can Women Use “Just For Men” Hair Coloring?
Drug Labels List Active and Sometimes “Inactive” Ingredients. What Are Inactive Ingredients and Why Are They Used If They Don’t Do Anything?
Why Do Peanut Butter Cookies Have Crisscross Marks on Them?
Do Starfish Have Faces?
Why Do We Often Find a Folded-Up Piece of Tissue Paper Inside One of a Pair of Men’s Dress Socks?
Updates
Why Do Fish Eat Earthworms? Do They Crave Worms or Will Fish Eat Anything That Is Thrust upon Them?
What Exactly Are We Smelling When We Enjoy the New-Car Smell?
Why Do Mosquitoes Seem To Like Some People More Than Others?
Why Do We Wave Polaroid Prints in the Air After They Come Out of the Camera?
Why Are U.S. Elections Held on Tuesday?
Why Can’t We Tickle Ourselves?
Why Aren’t There Any Miniature House Cats?
Does Anyone Really Like Fruitcake?
Why Do Older People Tend To Snore More Than Younger People?
Why Are the Sprinkles Put on Ice Cream and Doughnuts Also Called Jimmies?
Why Is Yawning Contagious?
Is There Any Logic to the Numbers Assigned to Boeing Jets? What Happened to the Boeing 717?
Why Did They Take Away Red M&M’s? Why Have They Put Them Back Recently?
Why Do Horses Sleep Standing Up?
When Do Fish Sleep?
Why Don’t Crickets Get Chapped from Rubbing Their Wings Together?
Why Does Looking Up at the Sun Cause Many People To Sneeze?
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