{"id":27914,"date":"2013-11-25T15:09:39","date_gmt":"2013-11-25T23:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?page_id=27914"},"modified":"2013-12-13T20:11:23","modified_gmt":"2013-12-14T04:11:23","slug":"wise-book-whys-addendum","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wise-book-whys-addendum\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wise Book of Whys Addendum"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p>The authors of the specific articles in <em>The Wise Book of Whys<\/em> are listed below, along with any corrections that have come to our attention.\u00a0 If you have found a potential error or typo in the book not listed below, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/contact-us\/\" target=\"_blank\">please email us here<\/a> so we can correct it straight away.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Authors<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Iuliia Glushchenko:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why Bathing was Uncommon in Medieval Europe<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Emily Upton:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why We Have a Seven Day Week<\/li>\n<li>Why Crazy People are Sometimes Called &#8220;Basket Cases&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Why We Christen Ships by Breaking Bottles of Champagne on Their Hulls<\/li>\n<li>Why Ferris Wheels are Called Ferris Wheels<\/li>\n<li>Why Dalmatians are the Traditional Dog of Choice at Firestations<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Scott Hiskey:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why We Divide the Day Into Seconds, Minutes, and Hours<\/li>\n<li>Why Led Used to Be Added to Gasoline<\/li>\n<li>Why a Gecko&#8217;s Feet Can Stick to Almost Anything<\/li>\n<li>Why America is Called America<\/li>\n<li>Why Beans Give You Gas<\/li>\n<li>Why Chemotherapy Causes Hair to Fall Out<\/li>\n<li>Why Multivitamins Often Make Urine Bright Yellow<\/li>\n<li>Why Helium Changes the Sound of Your Voice<\/li>\n<li>Why Voices Squeak During Puberty<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Matt Blitz:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why Mustard is Yellow<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Noah Wass:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why a Typical Workday is Eight Hours Long<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Terynn Boultan:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why People on Planes and Ships Use the Word &#8220;Mayday&#8221; to Indicate Distress<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Jon Hiskey:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why Lobsters and Crabs Turn Red When Cooked<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Daven Hiskey:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>All the rest of the articles in the book. \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Typo Corrections:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>None so far.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other Corrections:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>None so far.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The authors of the specific articles in The Wise Book of Whys are listed below, along with any corrections that have come to our attention.\u00a0 If you have found a potential error or typo in the book not listed below, please email us here so we can correct it straight away. Authors Iuliia Glushchenko: Why Bathing was Uncommon in Medieval [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-27914","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27914"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28370,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27914\/revisions\/28370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}