The Fun Knowledge Encyclopedia

The Crazy Stories Behind the World's Most Interesting Facts - Trivia Bill's General Knowledge, Volume 1

By: Bill O'Neill

Narrated by: Rob Maxwell

Length: 5 hrs and 33 mins

Publisher's summary

Have you ever wondered what happens to luggage that goes unclaimed at the airport? How about the origin of naming hurricanes after people? For a behind-the-scenes look at some of the craziest, interesting, and need-to-know facts, we've got you covered with The Fun Knowledge Encyclopedia: The Crazy Stories Behind the World's Most Interesting Facts. The audiobook contains hundreds of trivia facts and stories, ranging from the interesting and informative, to the simply outrageous.

Are you the trivia buff in your friend group? Maybe you're just always hoping to learn more random facts to keep up your sleeve. Whether you're a regular trivia fanatic or someone looking for a fun audiobook to listen to, this audiobook goes beyond the scope of general knowledge into some of the most interesting facts and intriguing trivia tidbits out there.

Everyone can use some fun facts in their life! No other fact audiobooks cover anything and everything - from the most insane rent agreement in New York history, to the way in which the Titanic disaster could potentially have been averted. The knowledge encyclopedia you've been searching for is finally here.

Learn how much a hot dog cart permit costs in New York City, and explore some of the oddest houses in the world. The Fun Knowledge Encyclopedia: The Crazy Stories Behind the World's Most Interesting Facts is the trivia audiobook of all trivia audiobooks. Find everything you've ever wanted, but never quite needed to know, all under one cover.

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Fun and fascinating facts!

The Fun Knowledge Encyclopedia, by Bill O’Neill is chock-full of thought-provoking tidbits of trivia. I have to say, I learned a lot. Numerous fun, fascinating, and unforgettable topics are covered.

A most intriguing and eerie topic was about Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy. They had much more in common than being President!

They were both boat captains
They were the second child in their family
They were elected in the year 60 (Lincoln 1860, Kennedy 1960)
They had 3 children living with them in the white house
Each had a child die during their presidency
Lincoln had secretary with the last name Kennedy
Kennedy had secretary with the last name Lincoln
Upon their deaths they were succeeded by VPs with the last name Johnson (Andrew Johnson and Lyndon B. Johnson)
John Wilkes Booth and Lee Harvey Oswald (assassins of these presidents) each had 15 letters in their name
Booth shot Lincoln in a theatre then fled to a warehouse
Oswald shot Kennedy from a warehouse then fled to a theatre.

I’ve listed several other interesting things I learned from this book of knowledge:

There is a store in Scottsboro, Alabama that sells items that were found in unclaimed luggage from airports, trains, buses, and trucks. It’s appropriately called The Unclaimed Baggage Center, and it spans more than a city block.

In Spain, it’s illegal to drive in flip-flops, or with an arm hanging out the driver’s window. You can also receive a fine if your ears aren’t visible at all times.

There is a disorder called Maple Syrup Urine disease. Uh…yeah.

For fifty dollars, a doctor can purchase a Fictitious Name Permit that allows them to practice under an assumed or false name.

Hawaiian pizza was invented in Canada. Hmm…

I’ve no doubt you’ll be surprised and entertained by this fun encyclopedia, and no doubt, you’ll learn a thing or two. I did!

Audio Narration: Rob Maxwell gives a wonderful narrative. His voice is smooth and clear, with a suitable inflection and pronunciation.

Audio Production Quality: The production quality of this audio book is clear, with no distracting background music, static, or skips.

Overall opinion: The Fun Knowledge Encyclopedia is as its title states--FUN. The trivia ranges from educational to downright silly, containing stimulating facts sure to boost conversation. I received this audiobook from a member giveaway at LibraryThing. The gifting of this audiobook did not affect my opinion of it.

Perfect for Trivia Stars

This book contains nothing but short, encyclopedia style entries about random facts or events in history. Arranged in no discernible order, it's hard to know what the purpose of such a book could be. Even if I was trying to find a specific entry or fact it might be difficult to do so. Still, it's fairly interesting reading and would likely keep you entertained on a car ride or during tedious household chores.

I really don't know how much of the knowledge I have retained as without context, the facts just go in one ear and out the other. Still, it might be useful for people who have a good memory or spend a lot of time playing trivia at bars.

A lot of good random information.

Listened to this while working from home and it helped pass the time with some random fun knowledge.

Very entertaining

I really enjoyed this. It was actually a little addicting. A wide variety of fun, interesting, humorous, weird and strange facts about on a wide range of topics. Everything from languages to people, places, food, entertainment, animals, insects and history. It's an entertaining hodge podge of facts. Some of the facts do involve adult topics so even though the facts are interesting and sometimes humorous it's not appropriate for all ages.

Half the fun of listening to an audiobook is learning something new with each book. This book definitely gives you numerous new things to add to your list of knowledge.

Rob Maxwell did a great job with the narration. Nice voice that is easy to listen to for long periods of time. His narration is clearly spoken with an even pace. Some of the facts are delivered with a chuckle some with a more serious tone depending what it was. It added life to each tidbit and made it fun. Very enjoyable.

There aren't really chapters so the only way to reference errors is by mentioning the story. There were a couple of repeated lines one I was able to note at the time was the fun fact about Timothy Murry.

I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and voluntarily provided this review.

A good book to relax

Bill O'Neil got a good amount of interesting and funny facts compiled in this book, so it's a good light reading between huge books. Rob Maxwell did an excellent job at narrating, with no visible hicups or problems.

The only downside is that no all the facts are really interesting, they could have chopped some off or replaced with something more interesting, and that there are a few points in the audio where there is the replay effect "

Interesting mix of information

If you enjoy trivia books, this is a good one. A good mixture of trivia from across the boards and the narration is decent.

this book is awesome!

this has so much information in it. its very, very interesting, and so many of the stories are downright funny, and there are a few that are just odd! it is very worth the credit. and worth the knowledge. I honestly loved almost every bit of inflation in this book!
Who would of known there was a SAND MAFFIA?


Rob Maxwell did a fine job reading this. you can also tell he had a blast doing it.

I would like to thank the author, narrator, or publisher for providing me this audiobook at no cost in exchange for an unbiased review.

This book was awesome

I highly recommend this book for the fun facts, makes for a great conversational piece.




This audiobook was provided by the author, narrator, or publisher at no cost in exchange for an unbiased review courtesy of Audiobook Boom.

Nicely done

Very entertaining. Great narration. A nice easy listen. Loved all the random facts and made me want to look deeper into quite a few of them. Did notice the audio repeated itself in a couple of spots. Great book, well done!
I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review

Lots of Fun Trivia

Bill O’Neil writes a little of fun and interesting books. This one focuses on the fun! Never a dull moment here. I loved it!