Hi, it’s Uncle John. You found me! Thanks for listening to me on the radio while I get out there and talking about Uncle John’s Know it All Bathroom Reader.(It’s the perfect Father’s Day gift, after all.) As promised, if you took the time out to visit our newly revamped BathroomReader.com website, you’re one step […]
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.
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.
All those things they do at weddings? Here’s the history of why they do all those things they do at weddings.
NBA teams haven’t switched cities in a while, but uprooting was once quite common in the biggest basketball league.
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.
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?”
As the CFL prepares to field its 68th season, let’s look at the unique history, rules, trivia, and fun of Canadian football.
As the publishing industry prepares to retire the mass-market paperback, here’s the history of a book format that changed the world.
Space is full of weird and unexplainable objects – these are the weirdest and most unexplainable of those objects.
All birds are kind of weird, but these weird birds are the weirdest of all birds.
Who will be the otherwise little-known player who rises up and breaks through in a big way this NBA playoffs?
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.
April showers bring May flowers, so just soak in these facts about rain, showers, or water falling from the sky.
Some of the biggest rock stars in history just couldn’t cut it without their bands. They went solo and became one-hit wonders.
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 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 […]
Here’s how animals that are active in the winter stay warm and healthy in all that snow and ice.
The world has turned its attention to Milan and Cortina in Italy for the quadrennial Winter Olympics. The greatest skiers, curlers, ice skaters, lugers, hockey players, and other athletes compete for glory and gold medals. Not being contested: these very real, very odd, and very obscure winter sports. Yukigassen. First played in Japan, and now in […]
