Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader Wise Up! by Bathroom Readers’ Institute Page A
Authors: Bathroom Readers’ Institute
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balance, a bald eagle will drop a feather from one wing if it loses one from the other.
Bats aren’t birds or rodents; they’re mammals. They also aren’t blind. Bats see very well, but mostly in shades of gray.
Eleanor Roosevelt
The town of Eleanor, West Virginia, was established in 1934 and named for Eleanor Roosevelt.
According to some stories, Roosevelt ate three pieces of chocolate-covered garlic every morning. Supposedly, it was to improve her memory.
When she married Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1905, Eleanor’s uncle—President Theodore Roosevelt—gave her away.
Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt got so many death threats that she started carrying a concealed revolver during his years as a New York senator. Members of the state police force taught her how to shoot it.
When King George VI and the future Queen Elizabeth II visited the White House in 1939, Roosevelt arranged a meal of smoked turkey, Virginia ham, green salad, strawberry short-cake…and hot dogs.
* * *
“Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president.”
—Eleanor Roosevelt
Tough Guys
Pro golfer Frank Nobilo’s ancestors were Italian pirates.
Richard Pryor was raised in a brothel.
To prepare for his role in Down and Out in Beverly Hills (1986), Nick Nolte spent five weeks as a homeless person.
Robert De Niro accidentally broke Joe Pesci’s rib during a sparring scene in Raging Bull .
Tom Cruise spent two years preparing for The Last Samurai (2003), learning how to use swords and speak Japanese.
Gene Kelly had a fever of 103 degrees when he danced the title song in Singin’ in the Rain .
Western hero most often portrayed on film: William “Buffalo Bill” Cody.
Humphrey Bogart appeared in only one horror film: The Return of Dr. X (1939). He played a zombie.
Al Pacino was once arrested for carrying a concealed weapon.
John Wayne was a star college football player, but a bodysurfing accident at Newport Beach, California, cost him his athletic scholarship and ended his football career.
Robert Mitchum once served time on a chain gang.
Sylvester Stallone grew up in foster homes until he was five years old.
Who played Robert De Niro’s homicidal passenger in Taxi Driver ? Martin Scorsese.
Actor Mark Wahlberg has three nipples.
Woody Harrelson claims that he had more than 17 jobs one year—and was fired from most of them.
Toys & Games
The game of marbles dates back to the Stone Age and is found in almost every culture.
The three most-landed-on Monopoly squares: Illinois Avenue, Go, and the B&O Railroad.
And Monopoly’s Boardwalk is called Mayfair in England, Schlossallee in Germany, and Rue de la Paix in France.
The soundtrack for the video game Onimusha includes a 203-piece orchestra.
World’s largest toy distributor: McDonald’s.
Best-selling video games of all time: Super Mario Bros. (40 million) and Tetris (33 million).
If you divided the world’s Legos among the world’s humans, every man, woman, and child would get 75.
The answer cube inside a Magic 8-Ball is a 20-sided icosahedron.
There are 324 possible solutions in the game of Clue.
Three thousand years ago, Egyptian children played with hoops of dried grapevines.
There are 255,168 possible outcomes in tic-tac-toe.
Billiards was introduced to America by the Spanish in 1565.
Chess is a descendant of an Indian game known as Chatur-Anga, played in the seventh century.
Top-selling toys of 1929: American Flyer model trains and the Popeye Paddle and Ball.
Number of white dots in the Pac-Man arcade game? 240.
Motherhood
In 17th-century America, the average married woman gave birth to 13 children.
The birth-control pill was invented by three men.
Disposable diapers are five times more likely to cause diaper rash than cotton ones.
Queen Victoria was one of the first women to use chloroform as anesthesia during childbirth.
The American
Bats aren’t birds or rodents; they’re mammals. They also aren’t blind. Bats see very well, but mostly in shades of gray.
Eleanor Roosevelt
The town of Eleanor, West Virginia, was established in 1934 and named for Eleanor Roosevelt.
According to some stories, Roosevelt ate three pieces of chocolate-covered garlic every morning. Supposedly, it was to improve her memory.
When she married Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1905, Eleanor’s uncle—President Theodore Roosevelt—gave her away.
Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt got so many death threats that she started carrying a concealed revolver during his years as a New York senator. Members of the state police force taught her how to shoot it.
When King George VI and the future Queen Elizabeth II visited the White House in 1939, Roosevelt arranged a meal of smoked turkey, Virginia ham, green salad, strawberry short-cake…and hot dogs.
* * *
“Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president.”
—Eleanor Roosevelt
Tough Guys
Pro golfer Frank Nobilo’s ancestors were Italian pirates.
Richard Pryor was raised in a brothel.
To prepare for his role in Down and Out in Beverly Hills (1986), Nick Nolte spent five weeks as a homeless person.
Robert De Niro accidentally broke Joe Pesci’s rib during a sparring scene in Raging Bull .
Tom Cruise spent two years preparing for The Last Samurai (2003), learning how to use swords and speak Japanese.
Gene Kelly had a fever of 103 degrees when he danced the title song in Singin’ in the Rain .
Western hero most often portrayed on film: William “Buffalo Bill” Cody.
Humphrey Bogart appeared in only one horror film: The Return of Dr. X (1939). He played a zombie.
Al Pacino was once arrested for carrying a concealed weapon.
John Wayne was a star college football player, but a bodysurfing accident at Newport Beach, California, cost him his athletic scholarship and ended his football career.
Robert Mitchum once served time on a chain gang.
Sylvester Stallone grew up in foster homes until he was five years old.
Who played Robert De Niro’s homicidal passenger in Taxi Driver ? Martin Scorsese.
Actor Mark Wahlberg has three nipples.
Woody Harrelson claims that he had more than 17 jobs one year—and was fired from most of them.
Toys & Games
The game of marbles dates back to the Stone Age and is found in almost every culture.
The three most-landed-on Monopoly squares: Illinois Avenue, Go, and the B&O Railroad.
And Monopoly’s Boardwalk is called Mayfair in England, Schlossallee in Germany, and Rue de la Paix in France.
The soundtrack for the video game Onimusha includes a 203-piece orchestra.
World’s largest toy distributor: McDonald’s.
Best-selling video games of all time: Super Mario Bros. (40 million) and Tetris (33 million).
If you divided the world’s Legos among the world’s humans, every man, woman, and child would get 75.
The answer cube inside a Magic 8-Ball is a 20-sided icosahedron.
There are 324 possible solutions in the game of Clue.
Three thousand years ago, Egyptian children played with hoops of dried grapevines.
There are 255,168 possible outcomes in tic-tac-toe.
Billiards was introduced to America by the Spanish in 1565.
Chess is a descendant of an Indian game known as Chatur-Anga, played in the seventh century.
Top-selling toys of 1929: American Flyer model trains and the Popeye Paddle and Ball.
Number of white dots in the Pac-Man arcade game? 240.
Motherhood
In 17th-century America, the average married woman gave birth to 13 children.
The birth-control pill was invented by three men.
Disposable diapers are five times more likely to cause diaper rash than cotton ones.
Queen Victoria was one of the first women to use chloroform as anesthesia during childbirth.
The American
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