Read Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Extraordinary Book of Facts: And Bizarre Information Online
Authors: Bathroom Readers' Hysterical Society
Belgium,
98
beliefs,
180
Bell, Glen W.,
160–161
Bell Aircraft,
200
Ben & Jerry’s,
141
Benjamin Franklin,
31
Bennett, Arnold,
59
beriberi,
348–349
Berlin, Irving,
4
Berlin Wall,
230
Bernard, Prince,
352
Bertillon, Alphone,
363
Betty Crocker,
262
Bichon, Germaine,
365
big band,
19
Big Bend National Park,
231
Bilderberg Group,
352–353
billionaires,
94
billions,
94
Binney & Smith,
267
birds,
39
,
74
,
107
,
125
,
138
,
198
,
259
Birth of a Nation
,
183
bison,
105
Black Bart,
191
black holes,
174
black widow spider,
318
bladder,
225
Blair, Linda,
109
Blair, Tony,
353
blankets, electric,
116
blindfold
,
328
blisters,
237
blondes,
112
blood cells,
94
blood types,
364
bloodhounds,
54
Bloomberg, Michael,
11
Bohemian Grove,
354–355
Boleyn, Ann,
326
Bolton, Charles E.,
191
Bonaparte, Napoléon,
73
,
78
,
213
,
326
boo,
23
Boone, Daniel,
73
boot camp,
62
Borden, Gail,
206
Boston Marathon,
75
Botts, Alfred,
169
Botts, Elbert,
149
boulevard
,
23
bowerbird,
138
Bowes, Walter,
160
boxing,
49
Bozo the Clown,
181
Bracken Cave,
46
brand names,
22
Brazil,
309
break the ice
,
57–58
Breakstone, Joseph and Isaac,
11
breast feeding,
16
breath, bad,
221
breath alert,
63
breathing,
225
Breuster, David,
327
Brewer-Giorgio, Gail,
335
,
336
,
337
brides,
270
bridge,
7
Bronx Zoo,
70
Brown, Dan,
106
Bruegger’s,
11
brussels sprouts,
215
Brzezinski, Zbigniew,
354
bubble gum,
292
buck
,
14
Buckley, William F.,
271
buffalo,
317
Bugliosi, Vincent,
347
bugs.
See
insects
Bugs Bunny,
133
bullet matching,
363
Bunker Hill,
209
Burdon, Eric,
377
burglary,
304
Bush, George,
271
Bush, George H. W.,
250
business cards,
78
butterfly
,
179
C
cabbage,
131
Cade, Robert,
175
Cadillac Mountains,
76
Caesar, Julius,
181
Caesar salad,
53
calculate
,
122
calling cards,
78
camels,
114
Camp, Walter,
97
canned foods,
92
cantaloupe,
131
Caplan, Frieda,
131
Capote, Truman,
272
capsaicin,
320
Captain Marvel,
153
card games,
7
Cardini, Caesar,
53
Carey, Drew,
142
Carey, Henry,
327
Carmen
,
133
carrots,
146
Cartwright, Rosalind,
236
cash registers,
27
casinos,
34
castle
,
23
Castle Grande,
367–371
cat litter,
99–100
caterpillars,
235
Catholic Church,
27
Cats
,
19
caught red-handed
,
57
cavities,
296
cellophane,
116
CEOs,
199
Cervantes, Miguel de,
241
CFCs,
94
chamber pots,
213
Chamberlain, Wilt,
177
chameleons,
12
chamois,
198
champagne cork,
90
Chan, Jackie,
147
Chaplin, Charlie,
271
Charles, Prince,
326
Charles VIII,
78
chat room lingo,
289
cheap
,
195
cheerleaders,
243
cheese,
145
cheesecake,
22
cheetah,
72
Cherokees,
299
cherries,
310
chess,
75
chew the fat
,
324
chewing,
288
Chicago,
47
China (Chinese),
5
,
8
,
30
,
62
,
93
,
266
,
268
,
362
Chiquita Banana,
55
choking to death
,
113
Christmas Carol, A
,
128
Christmas shopping,
119
Churchill, Winston,
73
cigarette gun,
129
cinnamon,
258
circulatory system,
66
clams,
10
Clark, Alfred,
103
class rings,
83
clean as a whistle
,
57
Cleveland, Grover,
120
clocks,
204
clouds,
166
coat hangers,
117
cockroaches,
33
,
55
,
68
,
219
,
221
,
235
cocktail
,
178
coconuts,
32
coldness,
136
colds,
70
colleges,
239
cologne,
196
Colombia,
309
Colonial America,
287
Columbus, Christopher,
28
,
73
,
90
,
301
comet,
80
comic books,
242
commercials,
159
committees,
139
computers,
240
condoms,
64
Confucius,
142
conspiracy theories,
352
,
355
,
385–386
constipation,
237
contact lenses,
329
cookbooks,
242
Cooke, Captain,
86
cookies,
328
Coulter, Ann,
302
country music,
286
cowboys,
191