Why Does Coffee Make You Poop?

The Ultimate Collection of Curious Questions and Intriguing Answers

Andrew Thompson

• Publisher: Ulysses Press
• Year: 2023
• eBook ISBN: 9781646045778

Uncover the answers to the world’s most intriguing, entertaining, and funny questions with this best-ever trivia book from best-selling author Andrew Thompson.

Shock and astound at your next dinner party with this “Best Of” trivia collection from the author of Can Holding in a Fart Kill You? This collection was created for all the curious adults who desire to have the answer to some of life’s strangest questions, including:

• Why can’t you tickle yourself?
• Why does coffee make you poop?
• Which came first, the chicken or the egg?
• Does bigfoot exist?
• Does an apple a day keep the doctor away?
• If a tree falls in a forest, does it make a sound?
• And more crazy questions for any curious mind out there.

Why Does Coffee Make You Poop? is perfect for white elephant gift exchanges, stocking stuffers, or lovers of strange, obscure, and sometimes hilarious trivia.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Dedication
• 1. Why Is the Sky Blue?
• 2. Why Are Moths Attracted to Lights?
• 3. Why Do You Sometimes See a Pair of Sneakers Hanging over Power Lines?
• 4. Can the Great Wall of China Be Seen from Space?
• 5. Why Do We Yawn and Why Is It Contagious?
• 6. Is One Dog Year Equal to Seven Human Years?
• 7. Why Is a Left-Handed Athlete Called a Southpaw?
• 8. Do Hair and Fingernails Continue to Grow after People Have Died?
• 9. Why Do Quarterbacks Say “Hut!”?
• 10. Why Is New York City Called “The Big Apple”?
• 11. Why Are Mosquitoes More Attracted to Certain People?
• 12. Why Does Touching Metal Sometimes Cause an Electrical Shock?
• 13. What Causes “Pins and Needles” in the Feet?
• 14. Why Do Phone Numbers in Movies All Start with 555?
• 15. What Is the Origin of the Handshake?
• 16. What Is the Big Bang Theory?
• 17. Is Breakfast Really the Most Important Meal of the Day?
• 18. Why Is Friday the 13th Thought to Be Unlucky?
• 19. What’s on the Rags That Villains Use to Make People Pass Out?
• 20. Why Does Sweat Smell?
• 21. How Did the Word “Cocktail” Originate for Some Alcoholic Drinks?
• 22. Why Did Pirates Make People Walk the Plank Instead of Just Throwing Them Overboard?
• 23. Why Is the Mona Lisa Painting So Famous?
• 24. What Is the History of the Pizza?
• 25. Why Are Male Birds More Colorful Than Female Birds?
• 26. Why Do Most Car Accidents Happen Close to Home?
• 27. What Makes Drugs Addictive?
• 28. How Do Martial Artists Break Things with Their Bare Hands?
• 29. What Is the Origin of Halloween?
• 30. How Do Steroids Enhance Sports Performance?
• 31. How Do Animals Hibernate?
• 32. Why Don’t Birds Fall Off Branches When Asleep?
• 33. Is the Human Body Really 80 Percent Water?
• 34. Why Is the Bermuda Triangle Such a Feared Boating Area?
• 35. Can Babies Hear Voices While inside the Womb?
• 36. How Did Chopsticks Originate?
• 37. Why Do Fingers Wrinkle in Water?
• 38. Is There Any Science to Déjà Vu?
• 39. Can a Chicken Run with Its Head Cut Off?
• 40. Why Do People Get Goose Bumps?
• 41. Has Any Human Been Successfully Raised by Animals?
• 42. Why Do Men Have Nipples?
• 43. Why Are So Many Barns in America Red?
• 44. How Do Bees Navigate?
• 45. Why Do Whales Beach Themselves?
• 46. Can Holding in a Fart Kill You?
• 47. Does Shaved Hair Grow Back Thicker and Darker?
• 48. What Makes Chili Peppers Hot?
• 49. Why Do People Open Their Mouths When Applying Mascara?
• 50. Why Do Fast-Moving Wheels Appear to Go Backward on Film?
• 51. Why Do People’s Eyes Sometimes Appear Red in Photographs?
• 52. Is There Any Science to Palm Reading?
• 53. How Intelligent Are Dolphins?
• 54. Can a Person Be Frozen and Then Brought Back to Life?
• 55. Why Were Neckties Invented?
• 56. Is Jurassic Park Possible?
• 57. How Do Squirrels Find Their Buried Nuts?
• 58. Why Is the Color Yellow Associated with Cowards?
• 59. Why Do Some People Wear High Heels?
• 60. What Are the Origins of the Expressions “On the Wagon” and “One for the Road”?
• 61. Why Do Geese Fly in a V Formation?
• 62. Why Do People Often Wake Up Just before the Alarm?
• 63. Why Does Spicy Food Make the Eyes and Nose Water?
• 64. Did the Lost City of Atlantis Exist?
• 65. Why Was 911 Chosen as the Emergency Number?
• 66. Why Do Girls Throw Like a Girl?
• 67. What Happens When a Person Is in a Coma?
• 68. Can Ouija Boards Be Used to Contact Spirits?
• 69. Why Do Onions Make People Cry?
• 70. Why Are Airplane Cabin Lights Dimmed for Takeoff and Landing?
• 71. What Is Truth Serum and Does It Work?
• 72. Why Did Dinosaurs Become Extinct?
• 73. Why Are Children’s Coin Banks Called Piggy Banks?
• 74. Don’t Police Sirens Alert the Bad Guys That the Cops Are on Their Way?
• 75. How Do Spiders Spin Webs, and Why Don’t They Get Stuck in Them?
• 76. Why Is a Person’s Signature Called Their “John Hancock”?
• 77. Do Sharks Have to Keep Swimming to Stay Alive?
• 78. When Was Toilet Paper Invented, and What Was Used before Then?
• 79. Why Does Bacon Smell So Good?
• 80. Why Do Vultures Circle Above Their Prey?
• 81. How and Why Do Chameleon Lizards Change Color?
• 82. Does an Apple a Day Keep the Doctor Away?
• 83. Why Does Time Seem to Fly As We Get Older?
• 84. Why Don’t People Ride Zebras?
• 85. Can the Full Moon Affect Human Behavior?
• 86. What Makes People’s Joints Click?
• 87. Does an Elephant Truly Never Forget?
• 88. Do Pregnant Women Really Glow?
• 89. Why Do Roller Coasters Make You Puke?
• 90. Why Don’t Governments Just Print More Money When They Need It?
• 91. Does Bigfoot Exist?
• 92. Is Time Travel Possible?
• 93. Do You Get Wetter When Walking in the Rain Than You Do When Running?
• 94. Can a Cockroach Survive a Nuclear Bomb?
• 95. What Causes Songs to Get Stuck in Our Heads?
• 96. Is It True That You Can’t Die in a Dream?
• 97. Why Do People Look Upward When Thinking?
• 98. What’s the Difference between a Turtle and a Tortoise?
• 99. What Is a Black Hole?
• 100. Why Don’t We Eat Horsemeat?
• 101. Does Listening to Mozart Really Make Babies Smarter?
• 102. How Did the Term “Blackmail” Originate?
• 103. Do Bees Die after They Sting You?
• 104. Why Does Seeing Food Make Your Mouth Water?
• 105. Is It Dangerous to Wake a Sleepwalker?
• 106. Is It Possible for Robots to Think for Themselves?
• 107. Why Do Beans Make You Fart?
• 108. Why Do People Seem More Attractive When You’re Drunk?
• 109. Are Bulls Really Attracted to the Color Red?
• 110. Is There Life on Mars?
• 111. Why Didn’t People Smile in Old Photos?
• 112. Why Is a Dollar Called a “Buck”?
• 113. Why Don’t Tornadoes Hit Big Cities?
• 114. How Did April Fool’s Day Originate?
• 115. Why Are Typewriter Keys Arranged the Way They Are?
• 116. What’s the Origin of the “Six Degrees of Separation” Theory?
• 117. Why Can’t We Remember Our Early Childhood?
• 118. Why Do Many Prices End in Ninety-Nine Cents?
• 119. Does Alcohol Really Kill Brain Cells?
• 120. Why Do Gazelles Periodically Leap in the Air When Being Chased by Predators?
• 121. Does Sitting Close to the TV or Reading in Poor Light Ruin Your Eyes?
• 122. Why Do Police Officers Hold Flashlights with an Overhand Grip?
• 123. Do Vegetarians Live Longer?
• 124. Why Is There No Cure for the Common Cold?
• 125. Is Baldness in Men a Sign of Virility?
• 126. Why Do You Often See a Single Shoe Lying on the Side of the Road?
• 127. What Is the Difference between Monkeys and Apes?
• 128. Do Plants Feel Pain?
• 129. Why Do Roosters Crow?
• 130. Does a Goldfish’s Memory Really Only Last a Few Seconds?
• 131. How Did the Strange Scoring System in Tennis Come About?
• 132. Does Sugar Make Kids Hyper?
• 133. Was Nostradamus Able to Predict the Future?
• 134. Why Were Prehistoric Animals So Big?
• 135. Is Using a Cell Phone at a Gas Station Actually Dangerous?
• 136. Why Do People Have Eyebrows?
• 137. Do Skunks Think Skunks Stink?
• 138. Why Does Traffic Jam for No Apparent Reason?
• 139. Why Do We Have Leap Years?
• 140. Why Can’t You Tickle Yourself?
• 141. If Only Female Mosquitoes Bite, What Do the Males Eat?
• 142. Why Do Doctors Have Such Messy Handwriting?
• 143. Why Do People Say “Cheese” When Being Photographed?
• 144. Does Lightning Ever Strike the Same Place Twice?
• 145. Why Do Firehouses Often Have Dalmatians?
• 146. How Does Aspirin Find the Pain?
• 147. Why Do Only Old Men Have Hairy Ears?
• 148. Can Police Dogs Really Sniff Out Drugs?
• 149. Are Lions Really Afraid of Kitchen Chairs?
• 150. Why Are the Upper Class Called Blue Bloods?
• 151. Can You Get Killed by Poking a Metal Object into a Power Outlet?
• 152. Why Do Kamikaze Pilots Wear Helmets?
• 153. Is There Really a Calm before the Storm?
• 154. Are Computer Games as Addictive as Cocaine?
• 155. Did Einstein Really Fail Math as a Child?
• 156. Why Do People Rub Their Eyes When They’re Tired?
• 157. Does Speaking to Plants Encourage Them to Grow?
• 158. Why Do Women Dance More than Men?
• 159. How Did the Term “Bootlegging” Originate?
• 160. Why Does Time Fly When You’re Having Fun?
• 161. Do Cats Always Land on Their Feet?
• 162. Will You Get Tetanus by Standing on a Rusty Nail?
• 163. Why Do Superheroes Wear Their Underwear on the Outside?
• 164. Why Do Pirates Love Parrots?
• 165. Do Cell Phones Really Interfere with Aircraft?
• 166. Why Do You Never See Baby Pigeons?
• 167. Why Are Rabbits Associated with Easter?
• 168. Are Women Better Multitaskers than Men?
• 169. Why Don’t Women Faint as Much as They Used To?
• 170. Can Piranhas Really Devour a Cow in under a Minute?
• 171. What Are the Origins of the Mexican Wave?
• 172. Why Are Men in Charge of the Barbecue When Women Do Most of the Cooking?
• 173. Do Alaska Natives Really Have Hundreds of Words for Snow?
• 174. Just How Safe Is Fort Knox?
• 175. Is Laughter Really the Best Medicine?
• 176. Why Do We Cry at Happy Endings?
• 177. Why Were Duels Always Fought at Dawn?
• 178. If a Tree Falls in a Forest, Does It Make a Sound?
• 179. Is There a Fine Line between Pleasure and Pain?
• 180. Why Do Gas Tank Gauges Take Longer to Go from Full to Half-Full than Half-Full to Empty?
• 181. Do Glasses Weaken Your Eyes?
• 182. Does 80 Percent of a Person’s Heat Really Escape from Their Head?
• 183. Why Can’t Men See Things That Are Right in Front of Them?
• 184. Why Are the Academy Awards Called the Oscars?
• 185. When People Lose Their Jobs, Why Is It Said That They Got the Sack or Got Fired?
• 186. Which Came First, the Chicken or the Egg?
• 187. What Happens If a Person Is Transfused with the Wrong Blood Type?
• 188. How Disastrous Would the Extinction of Bees Really Be?
• 189. Why Do Only Children Get Head Lice?
• 190. What Are the Chances We Are Alone in the Universe?
• 191. Why Do You Have to Take Laptops Out of Their Cases at Airport Security?
• 192. Do You Really Have to Wait 30 Minutes to Swim after Eating?
• 193. Why Do People Get Dizzy If Spun Around?
• 194. If You Touch a Baby Bird, Will Its Mother Really Reject It?
• 195. What Makes Grumpy Old Men Grumpy?
• 196. Why Do Wounds Itch as They’re Healing?
• 197. Is It Dangerous to Be in a Swimming Pool during a Thunderstorm?
• 198. Why Does Coffee Make You Poop?
• About the Author
• Artwork Credits
• Copyright