Uncle John's 24-Karat Gold Bathroom Reader

Bathroom Readers' Institute

Jul 2012 · Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Annual Book 24 · Simon and Schuster

About this ebook

The twenty-fourth edition in the bestselling bathroom-reading series is jam-packed with over 500 pages of absorbing trivia material.

The information miners at the Bathroom Readers’ Institute have unearthed a priceless collection of surprising, amazing, head-scratching, and hilarious articles. Divided by length for your sitting convenience, 24-Karat Gold is chock-full of little-known history, random origins, weird news, celebrity secrets, and urban legends. As always, you’ll find plenty of dumb criminals, clever wordplay, quirky quotations, and much, much more. Just open to any page—who knows what treasures await you?

·      Judges gone wild

·      The Barbie scandals

·      Canada’s underpants king

·      Helen Keller: vaudeville star

·      The double A-bomb survivors

·      The history of the umbrella

·      America's forbidden island

·      What the Hokey Pokey is really all about

And much, much more

About the author

The Bathroom Readers' Institute is a tight-knit group of loyal and skilled writers, researchers, and editors who have been working as a team for years. The BRI understands the habits of a very special market—Throne Sitters—and devotes itself to providing amazing facts and conversation pieces.