Free Uncle John’s Facts to Annoy Your Teacher Bathroom Reader for Kids Only! by Bathroom Readers’ Institute

and 2 basements. Spiderwebs and the number 13 show up everywhere: there are 13 candle holders in the chandelier and 13 stones in the spider-web-patterned stained-glass window. And the house is supposed to be haunted. Visitors claim to have heard mysterious footsteps, banging doors, and even Sarah herself playing the piano. So if you do visit, keep an eye out for ghosts.
    President Ulysses S. Grant’s favorite breakfast: A pickle.

YOU ARE SO ANNOYING!
    How come some of the most popular movies have the most annoying characters ?
    S END HIM FAR, FAR AWAY
    Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace is one of the highest-grossing American movies of all time. Millions of people saw the film, and it seems like almost of all of them were annoyed by the character of Jar Jar Binks. Even 10 years after the movie was released, he still ranks first on audience polls of the most annoying movie characters of all time.

    A surprising twist: George Lucas, the creator of the Star Wars movies, didn’t intend for Jar Jar to be annoying. He was supposed to be funny so that he’d appeal to kids. The Star Wars team spent more than a year developing how Jar Jar looked, how he talked, how he moved. He’s tall and gangly, and he has a face that looks like a floppy-eared duck-billed platypus with stringy growths that resemble dreadlocks coming out of his head. The thing that most annoyed audiences, though, was Jar Jar’s voice. He had a dopey way of speaking that many people found irritating. (So if you really want to annoy your teacher, start talking like Jar Jar.)
    Lucas and his team were surprised that people had such a negative reaction to Jar Jar. But they listened to the audience and cut back his role for the next film, Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones .
    The kea of New Zealand is the world’s only mountain-dwelling parrot.
    ALWAYS ANNOYING, BUT ALWAYS FUNNY
    Besides being incredibly annoying, Ace in Ace Ventura: Pet Detective , Stanley Ipkiss in The Mask , and Lloyd Christmas in Dumb and Dumber all have something in common: they were played by Jim Carrey. Ace Ventura was Jim Carrey’s first big starring role, and since that movie came out in 1994, Carrey has had a successful career playing annoying characters.

    According to many movie buffs, the things that some people find annoying about Jim Carrey’s characters are what others think are funny: his goofy faces, silly voices, and gross jokes. People even repeat his catchphrases—like Ace Ventura’s “All-righty then.”
    Movie reviewers used words like “stupid,” “gross,” and “immature” to describe all three movies, but they were all hits and made Jim Carrey a superstar.
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    SPF Goo: Hippos ooze a red liquid from their skin’s pores. The ancient Greeks saw it and believed hippos sweated blood when they got too hot. But the Greeks were wrong—the red liquid is a natural sunscreen.
    The Museum of Hoaxes says it has a real building in California But that’s a hoax. It’s just a Web site.

WALK ON WATER
    Why swim or take a boat across the ocean when you can walk like Rémy Bricka did ?
    O NE-MAN OPERATION
    In the early 1900s, one-man bands—in which a person strapped a bunch of instruments to his body and played them all at once—were popular. But by the 1980s, few people had heard of them. Still, Rémy Bricka tried anyway, traveling around France as L’Homme Orchestre, or “the One-Man Band.” Not many people turned out to see his act, so Bricka decided he needed to find another way to drum up some publicity. That’s when he came up with the idea of crossing the Atlantic Ocean…on foot.
    Obviously, he couldn’t use regular shoes, so Bricka made two 14-foot-long miniature boats—a combination of canoes, water skis, and shoes made out of fiberglass—and strapped them to his feet. To propel himself across the water (and help him balance), he built a six-foot-long, double-bladed paddle.
    STAYIN’ ALIVE
    Bricka estimated that he’d