You Don't Want to Know

The Grisly, Macabre and Most Forgotten Moments from History, Science and Beyond

You Don't Want to Know
James Felton
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Hardback
h204 x 129mm - 288pg
7 Oct 2021 UK
International import eta 7-19 days
9780751580808
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With his trademark brand of bulldozer-banter, Twitter legend James Felton guides you through the most morbidly fascinating facts you' ll then wish you could forget. Ever wondered why the chainsaw was invented? * What wholesome activities clever computer inventor Charles Babbage got up to in his spare time? ** Or how authorities dealt with a beached whale back in ye olde days of 1970? *** Then you' ve come to the right place!Within these pages you' ll find the maddest, strangest and downright grossest stories from history and science that you don' t want to know. (Except secretly you really do you masochistic, beastly person you. ) Illustrated, painfully funny and drop-your-jaw ridiculous, this is trivia from the cesspit of time that you won' t be able to stop reading once you start. *To aid childbirth. ** Baked himself in an oven to ' see what would happen' . *** They exploded it with 100 times too much dynamite and rained blubber down on unsuspecting people and buildings.
James Felton is a writer and journalist, whose articles regularly appear in the Guardian,Independent, Daily Mash and IFL Science. As a writer for television, his work includes the BAFTA award-winning The Dog Ate My Homework. Through his twitter platform of over 200,000 followers and counting, he is a well-known narrator of the Brexit crisis, averaging around 150,000 retweets a month.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9780751580808
Published: 7 Oct 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Sphere
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Format: Hardback
Height: 204mm
Width: 129mm
Weight: 41g
Pages: 288

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