When Do Fish Sleep? (45 page)
What Exactly Is One Hour Martinizing?
What Flavor Is Bubble Gum Supposed to Be? Why Is Bubble Gum Usually Pink?
Why Don’t Traffic Signal Light Bulbs Ever Seem to Burn Out? Can We Buy Them?
Why Does Mickey Mouse Have Four Fingers?
Why Don’t Migrating Birds Get Jet Lag? Or Do They?
Why Do Some Hard-Boiled Egg Yolks Turn Gray or Green When Soft-Boiled Eggs Don’t Discolor?
What Causes Floaters, or Spots, in the Eyes?
Does It Ever Really Get Too Cold to Snow?
Why Do Females Tend to Throw “Like a Girl”?
Why Do Telephone Cords Spontaneously Twist Up? What Can One Do About this Dreaded Affliction?
Why Do Golf Balls Have Dimples?
Why Is a Navy Captain a Much Higher Rank than an Army Captain? Has This Always Been So?
Why Do Chickens and Turkeys, Unlike Other Fowl, Have White Meat and Dark Meat?
Why Haven’t Vending Machines Ever Accepted Pennies?
Why Is a Blue Ribbon Used to Designate First Prize?
What Is the “Cottage” in Cottage Cheese?
Why Are There So Many Ads for the Yellow Pages in the Yellow Pages?
How Did the Toque Become the Traditional Chef’s Hat? Does It Serve Any Functional Purpose?
When and Where Do Police Dogs Urinate and Defecate?
How Can Hurricanes Destroy Big Buildings But Leave Trees Unscathed?
Why Are Downhill Ski Poles Bent?
Why Can’t (Or Won’t) Western Union Transmit an Exclamation Mark in a Telegram?
Why Do Telegrams End Sentences with STOP Rather than with a Period?
Why Are the Commercials Louder than the Programming on Television?
Why Is U.S. Paper Money Green When Most Countries Color-Code Their Currency?
Why Do We Have to Close Our Eyes When We Sneeze?
Why Don’t Queen-Sized Sheets Fit My Queen-Sized Bed?
Do the Digits in a Social Security Number Have Any Particular Meaning?
Why Do the Light Bulbs in My Lamps Loosen After I’ve Put Them in Place?
How Are Olives Pitted? How Do They Stuff Olives?
Why Is One Side of a Halibut Dark and the Other Side Light?
What Is the Difference Between a “Mountain” and a “Hill”?
Why Aren’t There License Plates on the Back of Many Big Trucks on the Highway?
Why Do Mayors Hand Out Keys to Their City?
What Is the Purpose of the Beard on a Turkey?
WHY Are Banking Hours So Short?
Why Does Granulated Sugar Tend to Clump Together?
Why Do Two Horses in an Open Field Always Seem to Stand Head to Tail?
Why Does Your Whole Body Ache When You Get a Cold or Flu?
Why Do Some Ice Cubes Come Out Cloudy and Others Come Out Clear?
Why Are Most Pencils Painted Yellow?
Why Do Fish Eat Earthworms? Do They Crave Worms or Will Fish Eat Anything that Is Thrust upon Them?
Why Are Stock Prices Generally Quoted in Eighths?
Why Are There No A-or B-Sized Batteries?
Why Does Starch Make Our Shirts Stiff?
What Is the Purpose of Corn Silk?
Why Is Prepackaged Chocolate Milk Thicker in Consistency than the Chocolate Milk You Make at Home?
Why Do Fingernails Grow Faster than Toenails?
Why Do We Dream More Profusely When We Nap than We Do Overnight?
How Does a Gas Pump “Know” When to Shut Off When the Fuel Tank Is Full?
What Is the Purpose of that Piece of Skin Hanging from the Back of Our Throat?
Why Don’t Birds Tip Over When They Sleep on a Telephone Wire?
Why Is It Sometimes Necessary to Stroke a Fluorescent Lamp to Get It to Light?
Why Is There an Expiration Date on Sour Cream? What’s the Matter, Is It Going to Get More Sour?
Why Do Roaches Always Die on Their Backs?
Why Does Warmth Alleviate Pain?
Why Can’t We Use Both Sides of a Videotape like We Do with an Audio Tape?
Why Are the Toilet Seats in Public Restrooms Usually Split Open in the Front?
How Are the First Days of Winter and Summer Chosen?
What’s the Difference Between Popcorn and Other Corn? Can Regular Corn Be Popped?
What Does It Mean When We Have 20-20 or 20-40 Vision?
How Does Yeast Make Bread Rise? Why Do We Need to Knead Most Breads?
Why Do Doctors Tap on Our Backs During Physical Exams?
Why Do Military Personnel Salute One Another?
Where Is Donald Duck’s Brother?
What causes Bags Under the Eyes?
How Do Blind People Discriminate Between Different Denominations of Paper Money?
When Not Flying, Why Do Some Birds Walk and Others Hop?
Why Does String Cheese “String” When Torn Apart?
Why Are Tattoos Usually Blue (With an Occasional Touch of Red)?
Why Is the Width of Standard Gauge Railroads Four Feet Eight-and-One-Half Inches?
Do Fish Sleep? If So, When Do Fish Sleep?
Why Do We Seem to Feel Worse at Night When We Have a Cold?
Why Do Kellogg’s Rice Krispies “Snap! Crackle! and Pop!”?
Why Do So Many Cough Medicines Contain Alcohol?
Why Isn’t There a Holiday to Commemorate the End of the Civil War?
Is It True that Permanents Don’t Work Effectively on Pregnant Women?
Why Do Some Escalator Rails Run at a Different Speed from the Steps Alongside Them?
Why Are There Lights Underneath the Bottom Steps of Escalators and Why Are They Green?
Why Are Rented Bowling Shoes So Ugly?
What’s the Difference Between Virgin Olive Oil and Extra Virgin Olive Oil?
Why Do We Have to Shake Deodorant and Other Aerosol Cans Before Using?
Why Do Airlines Use Red Carbons on Their Tickets?
I Have a Dollar Bill with an Asterisk After the Serial Number: Is It Counterfeit?
To What Do the Numbers Assigned to Automotive Oil Refer?
Why Are Almost All Cameras Black?
Why Is There a Permanent Press Setting on Irons?
What Causes Double-Yolk Eggs? Why Do Egg Yolks Sometimes Have Red Spots on Them?