Do Geese Get Goose Bumps?

& 199 More Perplexing Questions with Astounding Answers

by The Bathroom Readers' Institute

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Pub Date Sep 13 2016 | Archive Date Feb 20 2017

Printers Row Publishing Group | Portable Press

Humor & Satire

Description

Find the answers to hundreds of life's most perplexing questions in this entertaining collection from the editors at Portable Press (the team behind the best-selling, award-winning Uncle John's Bathroom Reader line). Do Geese Get Goose Bumps is 224 pages of simple explanations for complex topics—everything from "Why is air transparent?" to "Why do late-night commercials always offer to throw in a second, identical product 'at no extra cost'?" Clearly written and thoroughly researched, this book will shed new light on science, history, politics, sports, animals, food, pop culture, and more. Some sample questions:

Can an elephant cry crocodile tears?
Why do clouds float?
Why is abbreviation such a long word?
What's in a hot dog?
Why does Hawaii have interstate highways?
What did they call a photographic memory before the invention of photography?
Why does Superman wear his underwear on the outside?
Why do dogs come when you call them, but cats ignore you?
What's a male ballerina called?

And much, much more!

Find the answers to hundreds of life's most perplexing questions in this entertaining collection from the editors at Portable Press (the team behind the best-selling, award-winning Uncle John's...

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EDITION	Hardcover
ISBN	9781626867543
PRICE	$14.99 (USD)

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Toyin A, Reviewer

This has to be the funniest book I have read this year (so far). It contains over 199 random questions that we have all thought about at one point in time or the other.

Favourite questions:
1. Did you ever notice that people who say they don’t care what other people think are usually desperate to have people think they don’t care what people think?

2. Why are so many people afraid of clowns?

3. Why are organic food products more expensive?

4. Why are basketballs orange?

5. What do you call a male midwife?

Favourite quote: “Ironically, the Kellogg brothers were staunch vegetarians, but their name comes from a medieval English surname for a butcher; it literally meant ‘kill hog’”. Lol.

Rating: 5/5

Recommendation: If you are looking for a serious but not so serious book to learn from, keep you entertained and laugh out loud, this book is for you. I randomly burst out laughing on my commute to and fro work.