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  • Porcelain University: Bathroom Book 101

    Quick, Surprising Facts to Learn While You Sit

    by Jeff Plate ...
    Welcome to Porcelain University, the book that makes you smarter with every bathroom break.Ever wondered why airplane windows are round? What your salary has to do with salt? Why flamingos are pink? How astronauts can email tools into space? Or whether elevators can really free-fall?Porcelain University: Bathroom Book 101 has the answers to those questions, plus hundreds more you never thought to ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • Uncle John's Bathroom Reader: Extraordinary Book of Facts and Bizarre Information

    Series series Uncle John's Bathroom Reader
    From cannibals to conspiracy theories to the origin stories of candy, a compendium of thousands of fun facts to read behind closed doors!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; ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Discover's 20 Things You Didn't Know About Everything

    Duct Tape, Airport Security, Your Body, Sex in Space . . . and More!

    "More than mere trivia . . . Written with wit and humor, the entries are fun to read and easy to understand, demanding no scientific background." — School Library JournalHow much do you know about . . .Obesity * Sleep * Meteors * Aliens * Bees * Sperm banks * Sex in space * Duct tape * Germs * Airport security * Death * Ancient weapons * Rats * The Internet * Birth * Weather * Milk * Mosquitoes * ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2011

    Edited by Mary Roach, Tim Folger ...
    Series series The Best American Series
    The bestselling author of Stiff and Packing for Mars presents fascinating essays about our world by Jonathan Lethem, Jaron Lanier, Malcom Gladwell and others."America's funniest science writer." — Washington PostGood science writing, as Mary Roach explains in her introduction, is a cure for ignorance and fallacy. But great sci... ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Do Geese Get Goose Bumps?

    & More Than 199 Perplexing Questions with Astounding Answers

    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, ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Uncle John's Impossible Questions & Astounding Answers

    Take a quiz while you take a whiz!Test your smarts and then stump your friends with this collection of diabolical questions and answers that could only come from the trivia masters at the Bathroom Readers' Institute. Sure, everyone knows the Pilgrims sailed to the New World on the Mayflower, but how many people know what that ship smelled like? And it's a somewhat-known fact that Gene Roddenberry ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Why Does Bright Light Make You Sneeze?

    Over 150 Curious Questions & Intriguing Answers

    Series series Fascinating Bathroom Readers
    More than 150 new fun facts to delight, befuddle and amaze, from the bestselling author of Why Do Roller Coasters Make You Puke?This bizarre and baffling trivia collection with delight and intrigue readers, with answers to age-old questions like who was Dr. Pepper and what causes new-car smell? Written by the bestselling author of Can Holding in a Fart Kill You?, this new collection has 150 more ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Uncle John's 24-Karat Gold Bathroom Reader

    Series Book 24 - Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Annual
    The twenty-fourth edition in the bestselling bathroom-reading series is jam-packed with over 500 pages of absorbing trivia material.The information miners at the Bathroom Readers' Institute have unearthed a priceless collection of surprising, amazing, head-scratching, and hilarious articles. Divided by length for your sitting convenience, 24-Karat Gold is chock-full of little-known history, random ... Read more

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  • Brilliant Bathroom Reader (Mensa®)

    5,000 Facts from the Smartest Brand in the World

    American Mensa presents: The Brilliant Bathroom Reader—The ultimate book of 5,000 facts curated by the world's smartest brand. Perfect to expand any curious mind!Whether gearing up for a big trivia night or simply wanting to give your brain something interesting to think about, this big book of 5,000 facts from the smartest brand in the world fits the bill.These facts will make you think. They’ll ... Read more

    $18.84 CAD

  • What Makes Flamingos Pink?

    A Colorful Collection of Q & A's for the Unquenchably Curious

    by Bill McLain ...
    Do spiders sleep? Why are barns red? Why is there a crescent moon on outhouse doors? Are zebras white with black stripes or black with white stripes?As the Xerox Corporation's official webmaster, Bill McLain often fielded as many as 1,000 questions a day on just about everything under the sun -- and beyond. The wildest, funniest, and even most astute are collected here (along with their answers) ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Uncle John's UNCANNY Bathroom Reader

    Series Book 29 - Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Annual
    The beloved bathroom reader series continues with this twenty-ninth edition that's overflowing with strange facts on an assortment of topics.What's so uncanny about the twenty-ninth annual edition of Uncle John's? This enduring book series has been delivering entertaining information to three generations of readers (so far) . . . and it's still going strong! How do they do it? Back in 1988, Uncle ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ultimate Book of Trivia

    The Essential Collection of over 1,000 Curious Facts to Impress Your Friends and Expand Your Mind

    by Scott McNeely ...
    Have fun quizzing your friends—or yourself—with this puzzling collection of over one thousand trivia facts.Did you know that cats can be left-handed? Trivia fans will be eager to dive into this book for an edifying and entertaining tour of all the things they didn't know that they didn't know. There is something here for everyone and every occasion, with topics including Space and Science, Being ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus