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More True Facts That Sound Like Bull$#*t: 500 More Insane-But-True Facts to Rattle Your Brain (2)
From cubed wombat poop to mantis shrimp eyesight, impress your friends with More True Facts That Sound Like Bull$#*t!
Learn the weirdest things about planet earth with this hilarious guide to all things bizarre. Challenge your friends, puzzle your family, and troll social media with true-or-false questions sure to stump even the most experienced fact guru. The perfect gift for trivia experts and internet searchers alike, with 500 odd-but-true facts to choose from, you’ll become a weird trivia master in no time.
Put your game face on, and prove once again that you are the real know-it-all! Gather your friends and family 'round (again!) and get ready to learn more wild and crazy trivia and facts such Stump everyone with More True Facts That Sound Like Bull$#*t!
Learn the weirdest things about planet earth with this hilarious guide to all things bizarre. Challenge your friends, puzzle your family, and troll social media with true-or-false questions sure to stump even the most experienced fact guru. The perfect gift for trivia experts and internet searchers alike, with 500 odd-but-true facts to choose from, you’ll become a weird trivia master in no time.
Put your game face on, and prove once again that you are the real know-it-all! Gather your friends and family 'round (again!) and get ready to learn more wild and crazy trivia and facts such Stump everyone with More True Facts That Sound Like Bull$#*t!
256 pages, Paperback
Published August 4, 2020
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Tim Rayborn
45 books32 followersTim Rayborn is a historian, medievalist, and musician, with an MA and PhD from the University of Leeds in England. He is a writer on a variety of topics in history and the arts, from the academic to the amusing to the appalling. He has written nearly 50 books to date.
A professional musician with a specialty in medieval repertoire, he plays dozens of musical instruments, has appeared on more than 40 recordings, and has performed in the US, Canada, Europe, and Australia.
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March 9, 2026
I guess I am more interested in useless trivia than previously admitted, as there were several facts in this book that I'd already gleaned from YouTube videos that popped up over the years. The fact that John Tyler (1790-1862), US President, had two living grandsons as of 2019 was one of those (one of them, Lyon Gardiner Tyler Jr., passed in 2020, so it is now one living grandson).
The book is at times hilarious and at others fairly mundane, but good fun if you want an escape from the awfulness of what is happening in the world right now. Favourites include the shortest war in history, which lasted 38 minutes, according to this book, though historians apparently say 38-45 minutes. This was the Anglo-Zanzibar War of 1896. It ended with the British installing their favoured Sultan (500 Zanzibari casualties, one British). On the other hand, the Netherlands and the Isles of Scilly were officially at war for 335 years, but thankfully there were no casualties and a peace treaty was finally signed in 1986.
Another category used heavily in the book is archaic or ridiculous laws still on the statute books, including the fact that it's illegal in South Dakota to lie down and fall asleep in a cheese factory, and in Kentucky, you are legally prohibited from walking around with an ice cream cone in your back pocket.
Several of the strange facts also have a bovine theme, such as the fact that on average, cows kill 22 humans per year compared with sharks, who kill four per year. India has protections for cows written into its constitution, while studies have shown that cows in England moo in regional accents, with moos varying depending on their geographic location.
Postal services also seem to be quite an interesting source of strange facts. You could send babies around the US by mail until 1915, when the practice was outlawed. A pilot scheme was instigated in Belgium in the 1870s to use cats for the delivery of mail, which obviously failed to catch on, with the cats sometimes taking days to arrive at their destinations.
If you find it strangely amusing that Finland has the highest rate per capita of heavy metal bands in the world or that a frosty flake shaped like Illinois once sold on eBay for $1,300, this book is for you.
The book is at times hilarious and at others fairly mundane, but good fun if you want an escape from the awfulness of what is happening in the world right now. Favourites include the shortest war in history, which lasted 38 minutes, according to this book, though historians apparently say 38-45 minutes. This was the Anglo-Zanzibar War of 1896. It ended with the British installing their favoured Sultan (500 Zanzibari casualties, one British). On the other hand, the Netherlands and the Isles of Scilly were officially at war for 335 years, but thankfully there were no casualties and a peace treaty was finally signed in 1986.
Another category used heavily in the book is archaic or ridiculous laws still on the statute books, including the fact that it's illegal in South Dakota to lie down and fall asleep in a cheese factory, and in Kentucky, you are legally prohibited from walking around with an ice cream cone in your back pocket.
Several of the strange facts also have a bovine theme, such as the fact that on average, cows kill 22 humans per year compared with sharks, who kill four per year. India has protections for cows written into its constitution, while studies have shown that cows in England moo in regional accents, with moos varying depending on their geographic location.
Postal services also seem to be quite an interesting source of strange facts. You could send babies around the US by mail until 1915, when the practice was outlawed. A pilot scheme was instigated in Belgium in the 1870s to use cats for the delivery of mail, which obviously failed to catch on, with the cats sometimes taking days to arrive at their destinations.
If you find it strangely amusing that Finland has the highest rate per capita of heavy metal bands in the world or that a frosty flake shaped like Illinois once sold on eBay for $1,300, this book is for you.
April 24, 2024
I love weird facts and trivia. I know a lot of trivia. I played along at Jeopardy and Hollywood Squares and got a lot of the answers, so I knew this book would appeal to me, and I was right! I have had a lot of fun reading this and may just read it again.
It is full of things you know, don't know, and never even thought about. For example; did you know that Shakespeare invented the name Jessica; Hitler's nephew fought against him with the U.S. Navy; the CIA implanted listening devices in cats and released them in Soviet territory? Neither did I, and this is just a fraction of weird and interesting facts in this delightful book.
There are 502 facts in this book. I counted. All are interesting, and some are just incredible. If you like trivia, you will love this book. I think this is the shortest book review I've ever written - or is it Bull$#*t!!!!
It is full of things you know, don't know, and never even thought about. For example; did you know that Shakespeare invented the name Jessica; Hitler's nephew fought against him with the U.S. Navy; the CIA implanted listening devices in cats and released them in Soviet territory? Neither did I, and this is just a fraction of weird and interesting facts in this delightful book.
There are 502 facts in this book. I counted. All are interesting, and some are just incredible. If you like trivia, you will love this book. I think this is the shortest book review I've ever written - or is it Bull$#*t!!!!
August 25, 2022
This is a great little bathroom book that has turned me into a genius. Everything is quotable. Everything I question and looked up turned out to be accurate. I hate it when the book is smarter than I am
March 3, 2024
A fun little read. Lots of interesting facts in this book.
February 16, 2026
3.75 ⭐️ i liked the amount of facts it had in it!
February 22, 2026
Fun. Although I preferred the sections that weren’t True/False.
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