Can Holding in a Fart Kill You?

Over 150 Curious Questions and Intriguing Answers

By: Andrew Thompson

Narrated by: Brian Holden

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

Probably better as a coffee table book

I LOVE info-tainment books -- this should be perfect for me. I can't believe how short each chapter was: literally only a few minutes each. I could imagine picking up this physical book, reading 2 chapters, putting it down again, and feeling good about my newly acquired trivia. As an audiobook though, this just constantly left me wanting more.

fun facts

I go through a lot of fun fact books and most don't give too much of a story with the facts. this book does tell you a little back story with the facts which is often more fun than the facts themselves.

disappointed

this book might be decent for kids, but a lot of the chapters answered obvious questions, or didn't answer the question at all. a lot of chapters were basically "some people think this, while others think that."

Pretty disappointed - probably not his fault.

This audio book is marketed with a release date of 2019, but much of the ‘current’ info is, sadly, very out of date. That made more sense when I checked the original print date - 2015. Ordinarily that wouldn’t make much difference, but after the discourse on “how a telephone works” (which is almost at the end of the book) I finally realized why. Glad I listened for free. Returning it.

Don't waste your time

It presents too much unsettled science as fact, and does not give all sides of the argument.