Can Holding in a Fart Kill You?: Over 150 Curious Questions and Intriguing Answers (Fascinating Bathroom Readers)

This book is SO much fun! It provides the answers to so many questions that are fun, interesting, and occasionally- historical! The outline of the book is fairly simple. The question (sometimes silly, sometimes intriguing) is posed as a heading, and then there is a quick but detailed answer. These answers are a few paragraphs to a little over a page. The answers are concise but completely filled with great information. The title of the book suggests that all the questions might be crude or overly silly, but that’s not it at all! Although some of the questions are silly (for example besides the title, “why don’t birds fall off branches when they’re asleep” or “why do dogs have wet noses”), there are so many more kinds of questions in this book! Some of them are vaguely scientific (such as, “what causes Parkinson’s Disease” or “how does general anesthesia work”), while others are historical (such as, “how did Mother’s Day originate”). Although they are so different, all these questions are really interesting, with compelling answers and well-researched responses. I really enjoy this book. I expect it’s usually used as a “bathroom reader” but I read it all in one sitting! It’s so much fun, and I learned a lot!

Perfect for those long sits on the toilet

I'm not telling you. Get the book and find out for yourself. Ot just search it up using Bingle, or Goong, or what ever it is that kids these days are using.This book was full of interesting facts. 150 of them, to be exact.While I knew some of them, others I did not, so it was worth the purchase and the read.The fact I knew some of the facts is most likely because these are the types of books I read all the time. Just general knowledge/trivia. people won't play me in trivia games anymore because I know too many useless facts.But I say, any fact you know is knowledge. Just because it may seem useless right now, you never know when you'll need to know if holding in a fart can kill you.

I really like this book. It's a cool reference guide as a coffee table book, use as bathroom reader or a coversation starter. Thompson compiled some fun and interesting questions. Questions that might make the reader think, "I've never thought about that before."Despite the title of the book, not all the questions are silly.Thompson choose a bevy of questions having to do with science, history and theory. Questions such as why a chameleon changes color, how do bees navigate, what are the origins of the English language, or did the lost city of Atlantis exist. The answers are short, precise and detailed. Definitely enough information to satisfy an answer.I think my favorite question in the entire book is What is the origin of "Son of a Gun?" So often do we come upon colloquialisms and idioms that are used frequently and we don't give any thought into where they came from. Thompson not only has an answer, but continued the section by taking about the multiple sources from where the phrase orginated and how it has come to be used currently.As informative as his book is, it's easily digestible. I'm going pass this book off to a niece or nephew and tell them to learn some facts to pass on to their friends. Spread the knowledge!

As my age increases I've been finding myself spending more and more time in the 'home office.' As such my needs for enjoyable, but appropriate, literature has also increased. I look for books that contain cool facts, hard questions, and a condensed easy to read form. Enter "Can Holding in a Fart Kill You?" This book is absolutely jam packed with intriguing questions or musings on life such as 'What does Trainspotting Involve?' (What is trainspotting?) and 'Why is the Empire State Building Famous?' (Because it's big?).Each question is given 3-6 paragraphs of detailed information which not only answers the questions but expands it to larger concepts and ideas that can help !you! in life. But really, this book is hard to put down and is full of fun information which is presented in a concise and clear manner which I enjoyed reading. Heck, sometimes I even find myself taking it to the work home office for my afternoon reading pleasure.

I found the book informative and interesting. So many of the topics I've wondered about were included in this enjoyable book.

Kept on the magazine rack by my guest toilet, people who visit catch themselves staying in the bathroom much longer than anticipated! This book is a riot! And a great gift for the curious soul!

I just didn't find the questions that interesting. A little disappointing. Bathroom reader. Its fine.

This was a very well-loved stocking stuffer for my fiancé. Got lots of laughs at Christmas!

Bought it as a gift to my co-worker. She loved it!

Returned. A lot of really fun questions but a few are about inappropriate subjects that I do not want to introduce to my great nephew.

What a brilliant book of facts. Always wondered about a lot of general knowledge and this book covers a vast amount things

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