Uncle John's New & Improved Briefs

Fresh from the package, Uncle John presents his spanking-clean new and improved Briefs! We’ve refreshed a fan favorite that includes many of the greatest one- and two-page articles we’ve written, with more than twenty-five pages of new content. Uncle John’s New & Improved Briefs is chock-full of thousands of great facts and hundreds of quick hits covering history, origins, blunders, sports, pop science, and entertainment—plus a sprinkling of riddles, puns, anagrams, and other classic wordplay. Just open up to any one of these 288 pages. Who knows what you might find? Read about…

• The secrets of top-secret spy lingo
• The monkey that got a head transplant…and lived
• Bizarre recipes: jellied moose nose, steamed muskrat legs, and haggis
• The worst movie bloopers from Best Picture Oscar winners
• The little-known story of the best deal in sports history
• The man behind Death Valley’s “Castle in the Desert”
• How to decipher the hidden codes on a dollar bill
• Sinister left-handed facts
• Earth’s greatest hits

And much, much more!