Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Attack of the Factoids (47 page)

beer cans,
171
,
320

Beer Nuts,
364

beer steins,
171

Beers, J. B.,
115

Beersville,
320

bees,
73
,
161
,
281
,
301

beetles,
53
,
161
,
290
,
368

Belafonte, Harry,
116

Belcher Islands,
320

Bell, Alexander Graham,
21

bell peppers,
361

belly builder,
60

Ben & Jerry's ice cream,
359

Benedict IX (the “Boy Pope”),
339

Benson, Benny,
253

Berkeley, William,
111–112

Bernbach, William,
175

Berra, Yogi,
133

berries,
55
,
172
,
257

Berry & Lincoln,
302

Beverley, Robert,
112

Bezdek, Hugo,
363

Bible,
124
,
136
,
289
,
366

Bic pens,
75

bicycles,
22
,
356
,
357

Bieber, Justin,
44

Bierce, Ambrose,
197

bifocals,
189

Big Ben,
256

Big Bird,
18

bilateral periorbital hematoma,
325

billboards,
137
,
276

birds,
89
,
98
,
132
,
150
,
178
,
303
,
334

birth,
160
,
166
,
202
,
318
,
333

birthdays,
17
,
26
,
66
,
159
,
328

birthmarks,
318

Bishop, Jim,
163

bison,
102
,
144–145
,
275
.
See also
buffalo

black eye,
325

black pepper,
361

black widow spiders,
43

Blackbeard,
106
,
304

blackberries,
257

Bliss, Henry H.,
348

blond hair,
7
,
228

blood,
176
,
208
,
373

blood clots,
373

blood pressure,
230
,
373

Bloomer, Betty,
240

blowholes,
202

blue cheese,
285

blue color,
365

Blue Cross,
166
,
354

blue jeans,
114

Blue Shield,
166

blue whales,
202

boa constrictors,
258

boars,
154

boats,
109
,
148
.
See also
ships

body mass index,
59

body odor,
125–126

Bombeck, Erma,
133

bombs,
19
,
109
,
199–201
,
246
,
371

Bonaparte, Napoleon,
30
,
141
,
253

Bond, James,
83

bones,
13
,
186
,
223
,
269
,
318
,
331

Booger Hollow Trading Post,
363

book titles,
57

books,
82
,
90
,
124
,
191

bookstores,
124

Booth, John Wilkes,
6
,
216

bootleg liquor trade,
79

boots,
24
,
38
,
309
,
365

booze,
366

border collies,
139

border territories,
374–376

Borresen, Hakon,
140

Boston Marathon,
254

Boston Tea Party,
236

Boston University Bridge,
295

botervlieg
,
303

Botts, Elbert,
69

Botts' dots,
69

Boudreau, Carrie,
103

Bouguignon, Denis,
115

bourbon,
78

bowling balls,
327

Boysen, Rudolph,
257

boysenberries,
257

Bradbury, Ray,
90

Bradstreet, Anne,
287

Braess's paradox,
137

Brahe, Tycho,
56

Brahms, Johannes,
93

brain,
30
,
96
,
188
,
195
,
335
,
377

Brando, Marlon,
135

brass players,
298

bread,
36
,
170

breakfast,
119

breweries,
171

Bridge to Nowhere
,
295

bridges,
295
,
341

British Football Association,
378

Broadway,
69
,
96

broccoflower,
293

broccoli,
293

Brooklyn Bridge,
295

Brown, Heywood,
133

Brown, Margarget Wise,
83

brown bears,
157

BRT (Bus Rapid Transport) system,
358

brunettes,
7

brussels sprouts,
293

bruxism,
300

bubble wrap,
235

bubonic plague,
136
,
142

buccaneers,
304

Buchanan, James,
6
,
216

buckeyes,
247

bucking broncos,
284

buffalo,
102
,
144–145
.
See also
bison

buffalo wings,
302

Bugeaters football team,
13

bugs.
See
insects

bugs, computer,
367

bukht
,
149

bullfrogs,
155

bungee jumping,
295

Bunker, Archie,
160

Bunyan, John,
324

Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms,
366

buried alive fears,
234–235
,
341

Burnett, Leo,
175

Burney, Venetia,
152

Burroughs, William S.,
287

burrowing owls,
303

Bus Rapid Transport (BRT) system,
358

Bush, George H. W.,
4

Bush, George W.,
53

bush babies,
361

business cards,
170

BusinessWeek
magazine,
103

Butterfingers candy bar,
308

butterflies,
43
,
180
,
244
,
281
,
303
,
351

Byrne, David,
319

Byron, Lord,
37
,
58

C

cabbage,
293

cacao beans,
64

Cadbury candy maker,
187

Caesar, Julius,
301

Caffe Trieste,
74

caffeine,
61
,
236

California (island of),
321

California gray whale,
127
,
178

California redwoods,
292

California state flag,
322

California winemaking,
289

Caligula,
309

calliopes,
62

calvity
,
301

cambium,
292

camel humps,
242

camel-hair brush,
349

camels,
149
,
195
,
242

Cameron, James,
27

Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall,
20

Canada,
47
,
158
,
176
,
342
,
357
,
374

Canadian flag,
253

Canadian lakes,
272

Canadian Mounties,
139

Canadian Toonie coin,
342

Canadians,
33
,
54
,
160
,
257
,
320

cancer,
120
,
139
,
217
,
236
,
241
,
331

candlefish,
260
,
275

Candlemas,
131

candy,
179
,
308

canhus
,
325

cannabis seeds,
217

cannonballs,
283–284

canoe races,
316

can-ologist,
171

Canute the Great,
56

capillaries,
373

Cap'n Crunch cereal,
119

Capone, Al,
16
,
20

Capone, Vince,
20

capsaicin,
361

car accidents,
29
,
348

car horns,
298

car insurance,
95
,
354

Caraway, Hattie Ophelia Wyatt,
363

carbon dioxide,
185
,
208
,
356

carbon paper,
75

cardiac arrest,
138

cardiovascular disease,
230

Carling, John,
171

carnophobia,
23

Carroll, Lewis,
204

cars,
1
,
13
,
137
,
159
,
188
.
See also
driving

Carson, Johnny,
226

Carter, Jimmy,
6
,
44
,
166
,
286

Cartier, Jacques,
176

cartoons,
7
,
44
,
82
,
116
,
322
,
323
,
371

Carver, George Washington,
247

cashews,
247

cashmere,
349

Caspian Sea,
272

cassava,
122

Cassidy, Hopalong,
24

Castellaneta, Dan,
147

castor bean oil,
297

Castro, Fidel,
65

casu marzu
,
271

cat family,
16
,
96
,
136
,
143
,
154–156
,
344

cat haters,
197–198

cat litter,
64

catamount,
344

caterpillars,
161
,
180

catfish,
132
,
165

catgut,
298

Catherine the Great of Russia, Empress,
57

Catholicism,
266–268

cats, house,
136
,
143
,
154
,
233
,
273
,
330
,
344

cats in space,
254