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Prove you are the smartest schmuck in the room with 500 true trivia facts that sound absurd. These facts are so absurd some might even say that they sound like bull$#*t!

Knowledge is power! Crush the competition at trivia night, or start the most interesting conversation ever with real facts that are hard to believe. This book is loaded with mind-blowing facts that are sure to keep you wondering, "How are these even true?" while equipping you to outsmart everyone around and blow their minds. Topics include:

• Science
• American Sports
• History
• Pop Culture
• Nature

Put your game face on, and prove once and for all that you are the real know-it-all! Gather your friends and family 'round and get ready to learn some wild and crazy trivia and facts such as:

• True or False? A chicken once survived almost two years after having its head cut off.
• True or False? The dog that played Toto in The Wizard of Oz was paid a salary.
• How many baseballs does the MLB use every season?
• What state has jousting as its official sport?
• True or False? Most Canadians live south of Seattle.

Stump everyone with True Facts That Sound Like Bull$#*t!

• If evolution really works, how come mothers have only two hands? –Milton Berle
• The game card said: “Name three wars.” My teenage daughter’s response: “Civil War, Revolutionary War, and Star Wars.”
• Keep your temper. Nobody wants it. –Dearborn Independent
• Check out this billion-dollar idea. A smoke detector that shuts off when you yell, “I’m just cooking!”
• Anthropologists have discovered a 50-million-year-old human skull with three perfectly preserved teeth intact. They're not sure, but they think it may be the remains of the very first hockey player. –Jay Leno

• 200+ interesting facts and trivia
• Engaging illustrations and easy-to-read format
• Portable size, great for road trips and family vacations 

Why do you “call shotgun” when you want the front passenger seat? What does “letting the cat out of the bag” have to do with divulging secrets? Why do you ask people to “cut to the chase”? Why do you hear all those juicy rumors “through the grapevine”?

Like many people, you’ve probably used idioms or phrases like these without giving them a second thought. But if you were to take a moment to step back and learn about them you’ll be pleasantly surprised to discover the mesmerizing and sometimes outright bizarre origins to these fun sayings!

In Why Do We Say That, we have curated 101 of the most regularly used idioms, proverbs, turns of phrases, and colloquial terms that have the most fascinating backstories. For each phrase, we explain how it was coined, how its use evolved through the ages, and how it gained its contemporary use.

Inside you will discover:

• What the sanitary conditions of 17th century London have to do with its “raining cats and dogs” today.
• What taking things “with a grain of salt” has to do with an ancient remedy for poison.
• What Southeast Asian warrior traditions have to do with the term “to run amuck.”
• Why “to break a leg” became something worth aspiring to in the Elizabethan theaters.
• And many, many more!

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• Did you hear about the Broadway actor who broke through the floorboards? He was just going through a stage
• What did the ill comic say in the hospital? "I'm here...all weak!"
• Charles Dickens walks into a bar and orders a martini. The bartender asks, "Olive or twist?"
• Posted in a dental office: "Be kind to your dentist. He has fillings too."
• "The main advantage of being famous is that when you bore people at dinner parties, they think it is their fault." -Henry Kissinger, Nobel Peace Prize, 1973
• As Groucho Marx once said, "A laugh is like an aspirin, only it works twice as fast."