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HORNY LIZARDS AND HEADLESS CHICKENS is a vile and disgusting compendium of the world's most unpleasant creatures, diseases, hideous tortures and every other type of horrifying, nauseating fact imaginable. Questions posed in the book address revolting matters such as: * Do flies really puke on your food? * Which worm can eat its way through the human eye? * And how long does a head remain conscious after being guillotined? In HORNY LIZARDS AND HEADLESS CHICKENS, readers can explore a huge range of horrible subjects, which most books have the good sense to avoid, including Aztec sacrifices, bizarre medical treatments, body snatchers, cannibalism, and eye-wateringly unpleasant execution methods. You are guaranteed a brilliantly sickening read.

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From the author of the "New York Times" bestseller* "Why You Shouldn't Eat Your Boogers and Other Useless (or Gross) Information About Your Body" the be-all and end-all compendium of odd, quirky, and otherwise nauseating information.
H ere is another thoroughly distasteful yet utterly compelling book from the author of the "New York Times" (extended list) bestseller "Why You Shouldn't Eat Your Boogers and Other Useless (or Gross) Information About Your Body." In "Why Fish Fart and Other Useless (or Gross) Information About the World, " Francesca Gould sifts through the world's most unpleasant creatures, diseases, physical deformities, culinary delicacies, ritual practices, and hideous torture tactics to uncover every horrifying and stomach-turning fact under the sun. This book is full of questions you never thought to ask?and perhaps will wish you?d never had answered?including:
?What exactly is maggot cheese?
?How did anal hair help to lead to the conviction of the Great
?Train Robbers?
?What is the job of a ?fart catcher
How exactly do ?crabs? cause such intense itching around one's private parts?
?The "real" story behind why the toilet is often referred to as ?the john.?
?Why you might want to steer clear of some coffees. (Hint: If poo isn't exactly your idea of appetizing . . .)
"Why Fish Fart and Other Useless (or Gross) Information About the World" is sure to delight any and all hard-core fans of the obscure, esoteric, and?last but not least?grotesque.

Fascinating...Unbelievable...Gross These are just a few of the responses readers will hear when they impress their friends with facts from the quirky new book of body trivia, " Why You Shouldn't Eat Your Boogers & Other Useless or Gross Information About Your Body" by Francesca Gould.

This collection of little-known facts about the human body answers the questions you have always wanted to ask but never dared to, such as:

Can smoking make your teeth fall out?
Is it safe to eat moldy food after the mold's been cut off?
Do intelligent people have bigger brains?
How do astronauts poo in space?
The book also offers many unbelievable-but-true historical factoids about the body. For example:

Have you ever heard of Dr. Strangelove Syndrome? It's a rare condition caused by damage to certain parts in the brain, which results in a person's hand acting independently and taking on a life of its own.
Did you know that there is also a rare condition called Foreign Accent Syndrome, which results in people suddenly developing a foreign accent?
Have you ever wondered if a heart transplant could change your personality? The short answer is, yes
Did you know that men used hair gel 2000 years ago during the Iron Age?
"Why You Shouldn't Eat Your Boogers" offers of cornucopia of body trivia that will have readers cringing with delight You can read it on the subway, in the bathroom, or even in a heavy downpour For contrary to popular belief, according to this book, you cannot catch cold by standing in the rain

A third installment in the delightfully disgusting miscellany series that began with the national bestseller, "Why You Shouldn't Eat Your Boogers and Other Useless or Gross Information About Your Body."
In the "New York Times" (extended list) bestseller "Why You Shouldn't Eat Your Boogers and Other Useless or Gross Information About Your Body," Francesca Gould uncovered everything you'd want to know-and a few things you'd rather you didn't-about the human body. In "Why Fish Fart and Other Useless or Gross Information About the World," she scoured planet Earth for a rich assortment of odd and/or unsavory facts. In "Why Dogs Eat Poop and Other Useless or Gross Information About the Animal Kingdom," Francesca Gould and David Haviland explore a subject positively rife with gross miscellany: the animal kingdom.
Indeed, animals do the darnedest things and, in this vastly entertaining book, Gould and Haviland uncover a universe of strange, hilarious, and quite often disgusting animal habits, ailments, and practices, including:
-Monkey-Faced Lamb disease;
-farting snakes;
-dino-chickens;
-and a creature you've never heard of that eats with its eyes.
"Why Dogs Eat Poop" is sure to delight any fan of the obscure and/ or grotesque.