38 Trivia Bits from Uncle John’s 38th Bathroom Reader
The newest Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader is out for 2025. It’s the 38th edition, and so here are 38 facts taken from its pages.
Daily Dispatch
Pud, Pickles, and Other Great Nicknames of Old Time Baseball
Baseball today is as good as it’s ever been, but it will never beat early baseball for its colorful and wonderful nicknames.
Inciting Revolution: Little-Known Lead-Ups to American Independence
Beyond the Boston Tea Party and the Boston Massacre, here are some other, mostly inciting events that contributed to the American Revolution.
The Biggest Comebacks in Sports History
The most exciting and memorable moments in sports: the next to impossible, come from behind victories. These are the biggest comebacks in sports history.
Great Moments in Father-Son Sports History
Every day is Father’s Day when you’re a pro athlete who can take the field, court, ice, or track with your own equally sports-adept offspring.
We Vow to Cherish and Honor These Facts About Wedding Traditions
All those things they do at weddings? Here’s the history of why they do all those things they do at weddings.
A Moving History of NBA Team Moves
NBA teams haven’t switched cities in a while, but uprooting was once quite common in the biggest basketball league.
Famous Wars In Which Famous People Not-So-Famously Fought
In honor of Memorial Day, let’s take a look at the little-known military service of some of the best-known people in the world: movie stars.
The Uncle John’s “Am I Saying That Right?” Quiz
It happens to the best of us: You pronounced a word wrong, and someone calls you out on it. You didn’t even know you were saying it incorrectly, and had been for who knows how many years. Get a checkup on your skills with this quiz that dares to ask, “Am I saying that right?”
What You Didn’t Know About the CFL
As the CFL prepares to field its 68th season, let’s look at the unique history, rules, trivia, and fun of Canadian football.
The Rise and Fall of the Paperback
As the publishing industry prepares to retire the mass-market paperback, here’s the history of a book format that changed the world.
The Strangest Stuff Spotted in Space
Space is full of weird and unexplainable objects – these are the weirdest and most unexplainable of those objects.
Get a Load of These Wild Birds
All birds are kind of weird, but these weird birds are the weirdest of all birds.
One-Hit Wonders of the NBA Playoffs
Who will be the otherwise little-known player who rises up and breaks through in a big way this NBA playoffs?
A Very Muppet Movie That Doesn’t Exist
It’s time to play the music, it’s time to light the lights, it’s time to hear the stories of the Muppet movies that never got made.
A Bunch of Facts About Rain
April showers bring May flowers, so just soak in these facts about rain, showers, or water falling from the sky.
Stars Who Left Their Massive Bands and Became One-Hit Wonders
Some of the biggest rock stars in history just couldn’t cut it without their bands. They went solo and became one-hit wonders.
It’s Your Lucky Day
By Brian Boone Not just because it’s St. Patrick’s Day, but because you get to read these stories about some of the luckiest people who ever lived. The World War II Pilot A member of the U.K.’s Royal Air Force during World War II, gunner Nicholas Alkemade was fighting over Germany when his Avro Lancaster […]
It’s Your Move — Check Out These Chess Facts
It’s just about the oldest and most popular board game out there, enjoyed all over the world by people of all ages. Here’s the checkered history and some very moving facts about chess, the “game of kings.” • Historians think chess as we know it was first played in India in the 6th century C.E. Its […]
