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Can Holding in a Fart Kill You?

Over 150 Curious Questions and Intriguing Answers
By Andrew Thompson
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Can Holding in a Fart Kill You? by Andrew Thompson is a captivating and curious collection of over 100 fun and fascinating trivia facts. It provides surprising answers to everyday questions such as why sleeping birds don’t fall from trees, whether fish sleep, and why the ocean is salty. This follow-up to the bestselling What Did We Use Before Toilet Paper? covers topics ranging from history and science to pop culture and nature, blending silly, serious, and bizarre facts in an entertaining way.
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Format: Paperback / softback
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Ideal for trivia lovers and anyone with a curious mind who enjoys learning quirky, amusing, and unexpected facts about the world.

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A fun and fascinating trivia book with a wide range of intriguing questions and entertainingly written answers from a bestselling author.

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More than 100 fun facts—from baffling and bizarre to entertaining and enlightening. This curious, captivating collection of trivia will surprise and intrigue readers with amazing answers to questions like:

Why don't sleeping birds fall from trees? Does the full moon make people crazy? Why is the ocean salty? Do fish ever sleep?

The follow up to the bestselling What Did We Use Before Toilet Paper?, Can Holding in a Fart Kill You? has even more fun and fascinating trivia. Perfect for the ever-curious trivia lover, this book is the ultimate in truly extraordinary information.

From silly to serious to outright bizarre, this expansive collection offers surprising answers and unexpected facts on everything from history and science to pop culture and nature. From the everyday to the fantastical—it's all here.

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"A very handy book that could honestly, save their life -- or just answer all those questions they're maybe too embarrassed to even google." – Buzzfeed

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781612434759

Publisher: Ulysses Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 09 July 2015

Country: United States

Imprint: Ulysses Press

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 130.0mm

Height: 200.0mm

Weight: 190g

Pages: 280

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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. He lives in Sydney, Australia.

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