Are you sh*tting me? : 1,004 facts that will scare the sh*t out of you /
Are you shitting me.
Cary McNeal.
- First edition.
- viii, 310 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
TRIVIA & QUIZ QUESTION BOOKS. Blue Ice, Meteors, and Beaver Ass, Oh My! FACT: The use of maggots to clean wounds has proven to be effective for patients who don't respond to traditional treatments. FACT: The Icelandic dish hakarl is beheaded basking shark that is buried in the ground for six to 12 weeks to putrefy before it is eaten. FACT: Used during the Dutch Revolt, rat torture involved trapping rodents under a bowl on a prisoner's stomach then heating the bowl's exterior so the animals would eat through the victim's flesh to try to escape. FACT: The average person picks his nose five times every hour, occasionally eating what he picks. The world is a scary place, and it gets scarier every day. From the creator of the bestselling "1,001 Facts That Will Scare The S#*t Out Of You" comes this new collection of 1,004 (count 'em!) truly horrifying and horrifyingly true facts about the world around us.