What can Japanese monks teach us about life, happiness, and finding inner peace? Plenty, and apparently, they can do it with a lot fewer words than the rest of us! In this episode of Belly Laughs from Fun Facts, Jeff and Becky explore Zen wisdom, Japanese sayings, and the surprisingly funny lessons hidden inside some very simple ideas. From “fall down seven times, get up eight” to the famous sound of one hand clapping, we’ll discover that enlightenment might be easier to understand… if you can stop laughing long enough to find it!

September is a strange month. It starts out feeling like summer, suddenly decides it’s fall, and then spends the rest of the month confusing everyone with pumpkin spice, football, falling leaves, back-to-school chaos, and weather that can't seem to make up its mind.

On this episode of Belly Laughs from Fun Facts, Jeff and Becky take a hilarious look at the ninth month of the year and uncover the weird, wonderful, and downright surprising facts hiding behind September. What does Labor Day have to do with it? How about Patriot Day and 911? Why do kids go back to school around this time? And when did pumpkin spice become the official flavor of autumn?

What did people use before toilet paper? Leaves? Wool? Corn cobs? Yep… bathroom history is about to get a whole lot more uncomfortable!

In this episode of Belly Laughs from Fun Facts, Jeff and Becky take a hilarious trip through the surprisingly fascinating history of toilet paper. From ancient civilizations and questionable wiping methods to the invention of the toilet paper roll, perforations, indoor plumbing, and the great debate over whether the roll should go over or under, we uncover the facts you probably never knew you needed to know.