Are You Sh*tting Me?: 1,004 Facts That Will Scare the Crap Out of You
Oct 2014 · Penguin
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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 hákarl 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.
From ancient medical practices to doomsday scenarios, to disgusting food from around the world and the entire terrifying state of Florida, the facts in Are You Sh*tting Me? are sure to entertain and disturb you at once. Unless of course you are already disturbed, in which case this is the book for you!
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 hákarl 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.
From ancient medical practices to doomsday scenarios, to disgusting food from around the world and the entire terrifying state of Florida, the facts in Are You Sh*tting Me? are sure to entertain and disturb you at once. Unless of course you are already disturbed, in which case this is the book for you!
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4.1
248 reviews
Rose West
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December 29, 2021
I realize I rated these books at a 4 star rating and my husband and I haven't even read any of these books as of yet. Though if these books are anywhere as close to intrigueing as their titles are; I am sure they will have earned the rating and may need bumped up even one more. My husband and I are always interested in strange and unusual facts, laws or such, then we research these things just to see if they are still on the books as a law and such. You would be surprised at some of these things we find when we research them. For instantce in Texas if you are found coming from a farmers ranch who's fence has just been cut and you happen to have wire cutters in your truck you could be held for breaking and entering along with a bunch of other charges depending on what all kind of damage was done on the property/ or to livestock. What is even stranger than that is the punishment for this is still hanging from a tree till dead. If you feel the need to test me, please look it up.
Jenny
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January 14, 2022
A book mainly about random world events. Some interesting facts for sure but, you can find most of these 'facts' on random news articles. Glad I bought it on sale because the full price isn't worth it. Felt like I was reading a vague history book from high school.
Dignelberrt
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August 22, 2022
1004 Facts To Make You Think "These Are Actually Just Stupid Factoids You Tell Your Friends When There's Nothing To Talk About But Are All Freely Accessible Online So Why Would I Ever Spend Money On Them"
About the author
Cary McNeal is the author of the bestselling Scared Sh*tless and 1,001 Facts That Will Scare the S#*t Out of You. He is also an Emmy-winning humorist who writes for TV and the web.
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