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What Did We Use Before Toilet Paper?, Fascinating Bathroom Readers

Answers to the questions that keep you up at night—from Why is bellybutton lint generally blue? to Why does catnip affect cats?

BAFFLING AND BIZARRE.

ENTERTAINING AND ENLIGHTENING.

This witty and compulsive collection of trivia will captivate and surprise you with its fun and funky revelations. You’ll learn . . . Why New York is called “the Big Apple”How people count cards at casinosWhat keeps the head on a glass of beerWhy you never see baby pigeonsWhy getting married is called tying the knot

Praise for Andrew Thompson and his popular trivia books

“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

Andrew Thompson

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.

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