The crackpot staff of the Bathroom Readersâ Institute is out of control. After 25 years of laboriously researching facts and verifying them and then verifying them again, Uncle Johnâs mischievous minions decided to blow off a little steam. The result: Fake Facts. Itâs stuff that isnât even remotely trueâwe just made it sound real. Why? Because itâs 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 arenât true. So put aside your BS detector and settle in to read about:
The ill-fated âVice President For a Dayâ for kids program How the overfishing of dolphins led to the canned tuna industry
âCrumble,â âplaidsy,â âbenji,â and other British slang Abandoned rules of early baseball, and obscure rules of grammar How early vegetarians gave Boston its âBeantownâ nickname The secret superpowers of twins James Joyceâs unpublished sci-fi trilogy Unicorns, wizards, and pirates galore
And lots more falsified fun!
Categories:
- Literature & Fiction
- Humor & Satire
- Humorous
- Humor & Satire
Publisher : Portable Press
Author : Bathroom Readers' Institute
Language : English
Published :2012-09-04
Number Of Pages : 224
Binding : paperback
ISBN-10 : 1607105594
ISBN-13 : 9781607105596
Item weight : 0.4 lb
Dimensions : 0.6 in x 4.9 in x 6.9 in
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