Since 1987, the Bathroom Readers' Institute has been giving us diverting reading for the throne, following Uncle John's simple mandate: "Every article must be able to be read in a few minutes, and every page must either have an amazing fact or a good laugh—or both." In this collection you'll meet dogs and cats who ran for political office and the man who met his future pet—a stray dog—while running across the Gobi Desert; search for Planet X (the last unknown planet in our solar system); read Twitter rants that had disastrous effects; discover the bizarre method people in Victorian England used to resuscitate drowning victims; and learn the true story of Boaty McBoatface.