Product Description: This is a collection of revolting facts, unfettered by good taste, with grim, grisly facts and anecdotes about life, death, sex and personal hygiene. Try out the following at your next dinner party: Because many Japanese sumo wrestlers are literally too fat to wipe their own backsides, novice wrestlers are expected to do it for them...read more

Gathers lists of such tasteless topics as celebrity grave-robberies, ethnic suicides, adulterous British Prime Minsters, phobias of the famous, essential Elvis facts, last meals of condemned murderders, rules of etiquette, and succint pop reviews

Product Description: Hereditary rule once dominated European politics. A few families, believing in divine rule, controlled the destinies of millions before they were ousted. This book takes an irreverent look at the monarchs with disturbing passions, the empress of sex and the king into a peculiar form of bribery...read more

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Product Description: Power Mad! is a candid collection of authentic, fantastic facts surrounding the world's most deranged dictators. Charting the grisly, sometimes unbelievable demands and "policies" of these mad, bad men, Power Mad! will leave you astonished by their egos, eccentricities, and undeniable insanity...read more

A treaure trove of some of history's most outrageous, extreme, bizarre, and tasteless customs and behaviors includes lists of the ten uses for a dead person, ten bizarre aphrodisiacs, the ten least romantic honeymoons, and others, organized into categories ranging from food and drink to crime and punishment. Original. 15,000 first printing.

Product Description: A miscellany of fascinating facts and useless knowledge from around the world, including bizarre crimes, weird animal news, incredible urban myths, and potty wisdom. Be amazed, be appalled, but, above all, be enthralled by this cornucopia of craziness.

Product Description: The Little Book of Loony Dictators The Equatorial Guinean president Macias Nguema once initiated a cabinet reshuffle by clubbing his foreign minister to death. Idi Amin entertained his fellow African presidents by demonstrating how to suffocate someone with a handkerchief...read more

Product Description: 'The English aristocrat John 'Mad Jack' Mytton died a bloated, paralysed and penniless debtor in prison. His premature demise was partly due to injuries sustained while setting fire to his own night-shirt to try to cure hiccups. Just before the horribly burned Mytton slumped into unconsciousness he said, "Well, the hiccups is gone, by God...read more