Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Fake Facts

Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Fake Facts

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Publisher's Synopsis

The crackpot staff of the Bathroom Readers' Institute is out of control. After 25 years of laboriously researching facts and verifying them and then verifying them again, Uncle John's mischievous minions decided to blow off a little steam. The result: Fake Facts. It's stuff that isn't even remotely true?we just made it sound real. Why? Because it's really funny. Fake Facts is 228 pages of origins, facts, weird products, strange diseases, kooky fads, slang terms, historical oddities, and other fascinating bits of information that are too good to be true . . . because they aren't true. So put aside your BS detector and settle in to read about:

The ill-fated ?Vice President For a Day" for kids program
How the overfishing of dolphins led to the canned tuna industry
?Crumble," ?plaidsy," ?benji," and other British slang
Abandoned rules of early baseball, and obscure rules of grammar
How early vegetarians gave Boston its ?Beantown" nickname
The secret superpowers of twins
James Joyce's unpublished sci-fi trilogy
Unicorns, wizards, and pirates galore

And lots more falsified fun!

Book information

ISBN: 9781607105596
Publisher: Portable Press
Imprint: Portable Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 818.602
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 288
Weight: 227g
Height: 175mm
Width: 124mm
Spine width: 15mm