Uncle John's Top Secret Bathroom Reader for Kids Only!
Bathroom Readers' Institute
Language: English
Pages: 288
ISBN: 1592232310
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Jobs? Apples, of course. In 1976 the new company was three months late filing an official name and Jobs just wanted to get it done. He told his colleagues that if they didn’t come up with a name he liked by five o’clock, he was naming the company Apple. They didn’t, so he did. ADOBE. In 1982 John Warnock named this computer software giant after Adobe Creek which ran behind his house in Los Altos, California. GOOGLE. In 1998 Sergey Brin and Larry Page were looking for money to help start their
as metch-kangmi, which translates to “abominable (or disgusting) man of the snow.” News of a mysterious wild man in the far-off and desolate Himalayas traveled like wildfire around the world, and the legend of the “Abominable Snowman” was born. Seventy-five percent of the world’s pineapples are grown in one place: Hawaii. YETI SIGHTINGS 1832: English explorer B.H. Hodson reports being attacked by a “wild man” who “moved erectly, was covered in long, dark hair, and had no tail.” The Sherpas
to come and planting should be put off for a few weeks. If it didn’t see its shadow, warm weather was on its way and planting could begin. When German settlers came to Pennsylvania in the 1700s, they found no badgers, but lots of hibernating groundhogs, so they switched animals and created Groundhog Day. Yum! Seventy-five percent of the world’s maple syrup comes from Canada. In the 1880s, a group of friends in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, went into the woods on February 2 to look for groundhogs.
underpants in class one day, and everyone started laughing. The teacher got mad and told the class that “underwear is not funny.” Everyone laughed harder. That’s when Dav realized that underpants was a very funny word, and that Captain Underpants would be a great name for a superhero. • Dav’s name was spelled “Dave” until he reached high school, when he got a weekend job working at Pizza Hut. The machine that made the nametags broke and couldn’t print the letter “e,” so his nametag read “Dav.”
at age 7. HOLE IN ONE A golfer in Wales hit such a powerful drive on the 18th hole that it shot straight up the butt of a sheep grazing beside the golf course. Imagine the sheep’s surprise as it bolted across the golf course, taking the ball with it. Imagine the golfer’s surprise when the sheep galloped onto the green… and dropped the ball right next to the 18th hole! LLAMA DRAMA Milo the llama takes his job seriously. As leader of a herd of llamas on the Bailey farm in Northamptonshire,