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What Did We Use Before Toilet Paper? - 200 Curious Questions & Intriguing Answers - cover

What Did We Use Before Toilet Paper? - 200 Curious Questions & Intriguing Answers

Andrew Thompson

Publisher: Ulysses Press

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Summary

Answers to the questions that keep you up at night—from Why is bellybutton lint generally blue? to Why does catnip affect cats? 
 
BAFFLING AND BIZARRE. 
 
ENTERTAINING AND ENLIGHTENING. 
 
This witty and compulsive collection of trivia will captivate and surprise you with its fun and funky revelations. You’ll learn . . . Why New York is called “the Big Apple”How people count cards at casinosWhat keeps the head on a glass of beerWhy you never see baby pigeonsWhy getting married is called tying the knot 
 
Praise for Andrew Thompson and his popular trivia books 
 
“A very handy book that could honestly, save their life—or just answer all those questions they’re maybe too embarrassed to even google.” —Buzzfeed
Available since: 07/20/2010.
Print length: 266 pages.

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