Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Attack of the Factoids (50 page)

food news,
170

football,
42
,
63
,
133
,
378

foot-binding,
38

footprints,
186

Ford, Gerald,
4
,
24

Ford, Henry,
29
,
51
,
292
,
314

Ford Airport,
51

forests,
121
,
137
,
244
,
350
,
358

Fosse, Bob,
113

fossils,
146
,
186
,
294

Foster, Stephen,
86

foxes,
349

fragrances,
125

Frank, Anne,
89

Frank & Teresa's Anchor Bar,
302

Frankenstein
,
283

frankfurters,
2
,
302

Franklin, Benjamin,
15
,
18
,
90
,
96
,
189

frass,
315

freelancer,
329

Freemasons,
93

Freeth, George,
239

French Vieux Boulogne,
271

freshwater,
132

Freud, Sigmund,
160
,
270

Friends
,
116

Frisbees,
333

frobbisher,
60

Froebel, Friedrich,
339

frogs,
73
,
132
,
155
,
278
,
282

fruit cocktail,
172

fruit flies,
209
,
251
,
364

fruitcakes,
78

fuel,
315

fulgurites,
141

Fuller, Buckminster and Anne,
138

Fuller, Melville W.,
286

funeral homes,
233

Funk, Isaac Kaufmann,
218–219

Funk & Wagnalls,
218–219

fur,
145

furniture,
1

F-word,
277

G

Gagarin, Yuri,
32
,
194

Gaines, Bill,
82

galactophagists,
160

Galápagos Islands,
141

Galileo,
280

gallbladder,
242

Gallo, Ernest and Julio,
289

gambrinous,
171

games,
65
,
223

gamophobia,
363

Gandhi, Mahatma,
113

garbage,
91
,
329
,
357
,
358

Gardner, Evelyn,
248

garfish,
165

Garson, Greer,
316

Gates, Bill,
237
,
367

Gayetty, Joseph,
151

geckos,
73

geese,
196
,
265

genetics,
251

Genevieve de Brabant
,
93

George, Chief Dan,
104

George II,
56–57
,
106

Georgia,
106

Georgia state song,
87

geothermal power,
357
,
377

German language,
277

germs,
166

geysers,
377

ghosts,
41
,
296

ghouls,
224

giant tortoise,
178

Gide, Andre,
104

Gifford, Frank,
133

Gillespie, Dizzy,
336

gin,
257

Ginsburg, Ruth Bader,
83
,
286

giraffes,
31
,
178
,
330

Girl Scouts,
126

Glanville, Lady Eleanor,
244

glaring,
136

glass,
141
,
189

glass bottles,
189

Glenn, John,
254

glowworms,
368

goat cheese,
271

goat hair,
349

goats,
291
,
319

God,
352

The Godfather
,
74

God's Squad,
232

Goebbels, Paul,
169

gold,
115
,
169

gold rush era,
350

Golden Gate Bridge,
71
,
222

Golden Globe Awards,
113

goldfish,
165

golf,
47
,
95
,
141
,
230

golf balls,
46
,
47

golf carts,
348

Goliath frog,
132

Gone With the Wind
,
269

gong farmer
,
60

Goodnight, Charles,
229

Goodnight–Loving Trail,
229

Gordon Low, Juliette,
126

Gore-Tex,
96

gorillas,
330

Gort, Ilja,
94

Gottfried Krueger Brewing Company,
320

Grable, Betty,
74

grammar,
225

Grammy Awards,
113

Grand Theft Auto IV,
95

Grange, Red,
77

Granny Smith apples,
54

grape stompers,
184

grapes,
184
,
257

The Grapes of Wrath
,
124

graphite,
305

grasshoppers,
161

Grateful Dead,
336

Gravenstein apples,
54

gravity,
195

gray whale,
127
,
176
,
178

Grease Trail,
275

Great Depression,
32
,
122
,
222

Great Fire of London,
98

Great Lakes,
272
,
285
,
304

Great Pacific Garbage Patch,
91

Great Salt Lake,
285

Great Sphinx of Giza,
195

great white shark,
146

Green Dragon Tavern,
302

green sand beaches,
141

green tea,
236

green tree python,
227

greenest cities,
356–359

Greenfield, Jerry,
359

Greensburg, Kansas,
359

greenways,
357

Greenwood, Chester,
331

Gregorian calendar,
131

Grey, Zane,
7

grizzly bears,
157

Groundhog Day,
131

groundhogs,
131

Group of 77,
77

Guantánamo Bay,
90

Guillotin, Joseph-Ignace,
196

guillotine,
48
,
196

gum,
179

guns,
71
,
84

Gutenberg Bible,
124

gypsies,
335

H

Haas, Eduard III,
308

Hadamovsky, Eugen,
167–168

Haematomyzus
,
89

hair, animal,
58
,
139
,
144
,
228
,
299
,
349

hair, body,
89
,
228

hair, historical collection,
354

hair, human,
7
,
17
,
44
,
228
,
291
,
301

hair, insuring,
354

hair, nose,
228

hair, standing on end,
228

hair follicles,
228
,
301

hair loss,
301

hairballs,
299

haircuts,
181
,
254

hairy ears,
228

half-dollar coin,
342

Hall, Benjamin,
256

Hall, Charles Martin,
314

Halloween,
78
,
105
,
277
,
292

ham,
258

HAM radio,
11

hamburger chains,
351

hamburger stand, oldest existing,
243

hamburgers,
243
,
351

Handel, George Frederick,
140

Handler, Ruth,
370

Handwerker, Nathan,
2

Handy, Jack,
163

hangings,
48
,
240
,
335

Hanks, Tom,
322

The Happening
,
246

“Happy Birthday to You,”
328

Happy Days
,
135

hares,
227

Harley-Davidson,
135

harpsichord,
93

Harrison, George,
311

Harrison, William Henry,
6
,
110

Harry Potter books,
90
,
124
,
191

Hartford Courant
newspaper,
243

Harvard Law School,
338

Harvard University,
90
,
338

Haumea,
50

haunted places,
296

Hausman, Gerald,
104

Hawaii,
14
,
141
,
179
,
239

Haydn, Franz Joseph,
140

Hayes, Lucy,
240

Hayes, Rutherford,
240

headless “hogman,”
296

hearing loss,
230
,
298

hearing voices,
164

heart,
121
,
138
,
176

Heart Attack Grill,
351

heart attacks,
59
,
136
,
138
,
176
,
373

heart pumps,
370

heart transplants,
17

heart valves,
327

Heathrow Airport,
51

hedgehogs,
362

Heimlich, Henry,
117

heliculture,
261

Hell's Angels,
195
,
205

hemlock poisoning,
361

hemophobia,
373

Hendrix, Jimi,
113

Henrietta, Maria, Queen,
98

Henry, O,
7
,
324

Henry, Patrick,
323

Henry I,
5
,
44

Henry VIII,
320

Heroult, Paul,
314

herrings,
10

Hershey, Milton,
22

Hershey, Robert C.,
187

Hewer, Susie,
231

Hewitt, Foster,
360

Hextall, Ron,
360

hibernation,
330

hieroglyphic inscriptions,
307

Highway Gothic,
69

highways,
69
,
275