Description
| Author/Contributor(s): | Shaw, Karl |
| Publisher: | Crown |
| Date: | 9/27/2011 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
Prepare to be even more revolted, flabbergasted, appalled, and completely entertained by this incredible follow-up collection of absolutely true trivia from the author of 5 People Who Died During Sex. Nothing is too insane, too inane, or too sacred for Karl Shaw’s eclectic lists of the world’s very worst.
DID YOU KNOW…
…that the great plague of Athens in 404, which lead to the defeat of the Athenians in the Peloponnesian War, was probably caused by contaminated cereals?
…that Benjamin Franklin liked to sit stark naked in front of his open windows, calling the practice “taking an air bath”?
…that in the last days of his life, the actor Steve McQueen lived on a diet largely comprised of boiled alligator skin and apricot pits, washed down with urine?
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