Uncle John's 24-Karat Gold Bathroom Reader

Twenty-fourth Edition of the Bathroom-Reading Series

The twenty-fourth edition in the bestselling bathroom-reading series is jam-packed with over 500 pages of absorbing trivia material. The information miners at the Bathroom Readers'' Institute have unearthed a priceless collection of surprising, amazing, head-scratching, and hilarious articles. Divided by length for your sitting convenience, 24-Karat Gold is chock-full of little-known history, random origins, weird news, celebrity secrets, and urban legends. As always, you''ll find plenty of dumb criminals, clever wordplay, quirky quotations, and much, much more. Just open to any page—who knows what treasures await you?

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Judges gone wild

The Barbie scandals

Canada''s underpants king

Helen Keller: vaudeville star

The double A-bomb survivors

The history of the umbrella

America''s forbidden island

What the Hokey Pokey is really all about