Can Holding in a Fart Kill You?

Over 150 Curious Questions and Intriguing Answers

Ulysses Press
Andrew Thompson
Buy Book

More than 100 fun facts—from baffling and bizarre to entertaining and enlightening. This curious, captivating collection of trivia will surprise and intrigue readers with amazing answers to questions like: 

Why don’t sleeping birds fall from trees? Does the full moon make people crazy? Why is the ocean salty? Do fish ever sleep? 

The followup to the bestselling What Did We Use Before Toilet Paper?Can Holding in a Fart Kill You? has even more fun and fascinating trivia. Perfect for the evercurious trivia lover, this book is the ultimate in truly extraordinary information. From silly to serious to outright bizarre, this expansive collection offers surprising answers and unexpected facts on everything from history and science to pop culture and nature. From the everyday to the fantastical — it's all here.

Contributor Bio

Andrew Thompson practices law but his obsession with finding out the truth about aspects of the world that we take for granted has led him to accumulate a vast body of knowledge which he has at last distilled into book form. He lives in Sydney, Australia.