Wondering where the inspiration for Aunt Saffi’s Bedside Readers came from? As an in-house editor for Portable Press, an imprint of Printers Row Publishing Group, Kim spent five years as part of the tight-knit group of infomaniacs—writers, researchers, and editors—who create Uncle John’s Bathroom Readers. Digging up (and finding a minimum of three credible sources to verify) weird, bizarre, wonderful, and bamboozling facts became a passion that is now a part of both Kim’s and Saffi’s writing DNA.
Police in Connecticut arrested a man for robbery. When they asked him to return to the scene of the crime so witnesses could see him, the robber said, “How can they identify me? I had a mask on.”
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In 2004, a 10-year-old girl wasn’t content with the bite-on plastic fangs that most Halloween costume stores sell. She thought it would be cooler to glue plastic fangs on top of her real front teeth. It took an emergency trip to the dentist to pry these fangs off.
Uncle John’s THE HAUNTED OUTHOUSE: Science, History, Humor, Mystery and…Eerily Twisted Tales
A tiger’s tongue is so rough it can lick the paint off a building.
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Headline from an actual newspaper:
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HOMICIDE VICTIMS RARELY TALK TO POLICE
A man in India made the GUINNESS BOOK OF WORLD RECORDS by letting his ear hair grow to 5.25 inches.
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In 1990, members of a U.S. Congressional subcommittee wanted to know more about computer terrorism so they could come up with ways to fight it. The committee’s research included watching Die Hard 2.
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Battledore-wing fairy flies are teensy weensy wasps, only .0083 inches long—the size of the period at the end of a sentence.
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President Grover Cleveland had an artificial jaw. It was made of rubber.
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The memoirs of at least three American astronauts say that one of the most beautiful things to see from a capsule is the snowy sparkle of urine ejected into space. When “flushed” into space, drops of pee freeze instantly, and a silverly snowstorm swirls around the capsule.
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Cozies & Kim Griswell 