Prepare to be amazed, appalled, disgusted, and hugely entertained by this compendium of indelicate oddities. Nothing is too inane, too insane, too bizarre, or too distasteful for this incredible, seemingly impossible, but absolutely true collection of facts from across the ages and around the world.
Did you know...
...that Pope Benedict XII was such a hardened boozer that he inspired the expression "drunk as a pope"? (From "10 Historic Drunks") ...that as a special honeymoon treat, Prince Charles read Princess Diana passages from the...
All in perfectly bad taste
Prepare to be amazed, appalled, disgusted, and hugely entertained by this compendium of indelicate oddities. Nothi...
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. In 1956 Chairman Mao's Sports Minister recognized a new track-and-field event, the hand-grenade throw. Adolf Hitler tried to cure his chronic flatulence by drinking machine-gun oil. In a single day in December 1938 'Uncle Joe' Stalin signed 3,182 death warrants. The Little Book of Loony Dictators charts the grisly,...
The Little Book of Loony Dictators The Equatorial Guinean president Macias Nguema once initiated a cabinet reshuffle by clubbing his foreign minister ...