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  • Can Holding in a Fart Kill You?

  • Over 150 Curious Questions and Intriguing Answers
  • By: Andrew Thompson
  • Narrated by: Brian Holden
  • Length: 5 hrs and 13 mins
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (24 ratings)

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Summary

More than 200 fun facts - from baffling and bizarre to entertaining and enlightening

This curious, captivating collection of trivia will surprise and intrigue listeners with amazing answers to questions like:

  • Is Jurassic Park possible?
  • What causes "the shakes" after drinking a lot of alcohol?
  • Why do dogs walk in circles before lying down?
  • What makes popcorn pop?

The follow-up to the best-selling What Did We Use Before Toilet Paper?, Can Holding in a Fart Kill You? has even more fun and fascinating trivia. Perfect for the ever-curious 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.

©2015 Andrew Thompson (P)2019 Tantor

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It's okay

If you really have nothing else to read then this book will pass a few hours. I suspect many 'facts' books are like this one, so it's probably brilliant if you love that sort of thing.

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Passed the time😂

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Got me seriously wondering about farts

worth a read. very interesting and informative. Exposes some realities in life. Very good. throughly enjoyed it.

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Wow

I am a polyglot full of wonder... In short, I love to learn EVERYTHING, and this book is styled perfectly for you to learn a little of a lot... If someone who helped with this splendid book happens to read this... Thank you for your work from a reader. 😊

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Easy listen

I found this easy to listen to while I was working, I can't remember many of those fun facts.

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A fun listen!

A very easy listen. Suitable for most ages and non-committal. I would recommend this for trips

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Bite size fun facts


Loads of fun facts, all explained in about 2 minutes.

Great for young and old alike.

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awesome

leaving 5 stars so the algorithm recommends similar.

a good book to have on in the background as you can dip in and out when you like. each fact is about 2 mins long and different chapters so very easy to jump around

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Fun little fact book

Books like this, when done in a way that is accessible to all peoples' of any (provided you can read) level of intelligence, are an absolutely delightful palette cleanser in between those big, bulky, 1000 page novels that seem so popular these days.

I practically inhaled this. The audio book is only 5hrs long, but I listened to that over the course of a single day and was a tad disappointed there wasn't more nuggets of information to be had after the final chapter.

It has a wide variety of serious and light-hearted topics ranging from 'What causes Parkinson's disease?' to 'Why do Geese fly in a V-Formation?' to the titular 'Can Holding in a Fart kill You?' (I don't do spoilers, so I shan't tell you if it does or not).

Each topic is discussed at a length of about a page or so, never making the reader feel like they're sifting through word-count padding or unnecessary information repeated in three different ways in order to make the author sound 'more intelligent'. Andrew gives a very succinct, perfectly-depthed (not really a word, but if Shakespeare can add words to the English language, so can I) answer to each question posed.

There are two ways to enjoy this book; one is how I did it: all at once. The other is to have it on your bedside table so you can learn something new and interesting before bed every night. Well, there are probably more ways, but those are two I'd opt for.

The narration was great in this one. Wonderful job from Brian Holden

The TLDR of this short review is that it's a very fun book and you should probably read it if you have the slightest leaning towards interesting facts and answers to curious questions

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Absolutely terrible

Sounded interesting however is absolutely terrible and includes validation of pseudoscience as part of the narrative. Avoid

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