What Did We Use Before Toilet Paper?: 200 Curious Questions and Intriguing Answers

Andrew Thompson

Language: English

Publisher: Ulysses Press

Published: Aug 1, 2010

Description:

Product Description

BAFFLING AND BIZARRE.
ENTERTAINING AND ENLIGHTENING.

This witty and compulsive collection of trivia will captivate and surprise you with its fun and funky revelations:

•Why is New York called "the Big Apple"?

•How do people count cards at casinos?

•What keeps the head on a glass of beer?

•Why don't you ever see baby pigeons?

•Why is getting married called tying the knot?

About the Author

Andrew Thompson practices law but his obsession with finding out the truth about aspects of the world that we take for granted has led him to accumulate a vast body of knowledge which he has at last distilled into book form.