Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Attack of the Factoids (57 page)

water, bottled,
339

water, fluoridated,
339

water, on space stations,
337

watermelons,
257

Waterworld
,
246

Watt, William,
283–284

Waugh, Evelyn,
248

Weaver, Jack,
147

webs, spider,
43
,
351

Webster, Noah,
197
,
219–220

Webster-Ashburton Treaty,
374
,
375–376

wedding rings,
248

weddings,
19
,
38
,
95
,
238
.
See also
marriage

Wedgwood, Ralph,
75

weight issues,
17
,
59

Weir, Mike,
47

Weitz, Paul,
254

Wells, Horace,
330

werewolves,
224

Wertham, Fredric,
81

West Point Eggnog Riot,
252

Westray,
10

whale blubber,
127

whale oil,
127

whale shark,
146

whales,
21
,
92
,
127
,
169
,
178
,
202
,
230

wheat,
36

Wheaties,
119

whirligig beetle,
53

whiskey,
366

White, Andrew,
63

White, E. B.,
147
,
220–221

White Castle,
351

white chocolate,
187

White Horse Tavern,
302

White House,
6
,
120
,
138
,
240
,
355
,
376
.
See also
presidents

white light,
379

white noise,
230

Whitman, Walt,
7

Who (rock band),
113

Wickquasgeck Trail,
275

wieners,
2
,
302

The Wild Ones
(film),
135

wildcats,
143

Wilde, Oscar,
324

wilderness,
104

Williams, Sunita,
254

Williams, Terry Tempest,
104

Williams, Thomas Lanier “Tennessee,”
182

Wilson, Dennis,
328

Wilson, James,
153

Wilson, Woodrow,
120

wind farms,
359

windows,
189

winds,
1

windshields,
189

wine,
184
,
289

Winkler, Henry,
135

Winnie-the-Pooh characters,
191

Winnie-the-Pooh streets,
348

Winslow, Jacques Bénigne,
234–235

winter,
331

Winters, Shelley,
270

Wint-O-Green Life Savers,
96

Wirz, Henry,
48

Wise, Brownie,
103

witches,
123
,
136
,
143
,
296

Witches of Stalingrad,
199–201

The Wizard of Oz
(film),
155

Wolf, David,
116

wolves,
104
,
142–143

wombats,
258
,
303

women,
4
,
17
,
45
,
49
,
59
,
341
,
366

women, divorced,
17
,
173
,
345

women, “firsts,”
103

women, pregnant,
4
,
119
,
159

women, suicides,
71

women atheletes,
134
,
211
,
231

women in space,
254

women in war,
199–201
,
268

women's sweat,
125

wood,
123
,
292
,
340

Wood Buffalo,
102

wood louse,
292

wood pulp,
340

Woodhull, Victoria,
103

Woods, Grant,
155

Woods, Tiger,
162
,
182

Woodstock,
328

woodwind players,
298

Woolf, Virginia,
7
,
182

words,
123
,
277
,
352

work,
329

workers' strike,
255

work-related stress,
329

World of Coca-Cola museum,
106

World Series,
88

World Trade Center,
314

World's Fair,
18

Wright, Frank Lloyd,
278

Wright, Wilbur,
51

Wright brothers,
97

wristwatches,
346

writers,
71
,
83
,
204
,
324

Wuhu Yangtze River Bridge,
295

X

The X Factor
,
95

Y

yak dung,
306

Yankovic, Weird Al,
214

yard sales,
316

yeast,
36

Yellowstone National Park,
145
,
377

“Yes, We Have No Bananas,”
298

“Yesterday,”
283

York, England,
296

Young, Cy,
113

Z

zebras,
258

Zeuxis,
279

Zhitui, Yan,
151

ZIP codes,
190

zippers,
38
,
114

zombie computers,
367

zombies,
41
,
343

ZZ Top,
291

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