Are You Sh*tting Me?

<p><strong>Blue Ice, Meteors, and Beaver Ass, Oh My! </strong><br /><br />FACT: The use of maggots to clean wounds has proven to be effective for patients who don't respond to traditional treatments.<br /><br />FACT: The Icelandic dish h&aacute;karl is beheaded basking shark that is buried in the ground for six to 12 weeks to putrefy before it is eaten.<br /><br />FACT: Used during the Dutch Revolt, rat torture involved trapping rodents under a bowl on a prisoner's stomach then heating the bowl's exterior so the animals would eat through the victim's flesh to try to escape.<br /><br />FACT: The average person picks his nose five times every hour, occasionally eating what he picks.<br /><br />The world is a scary place, and it gets scarier every day. From the creator of the bestselling <em>1,001 Facts That Will Scare The S#*t Out Of You</em> comes this new collection of 1,004 (count 'em!) truly horrifying and horrifyingly true facts about the world around us.<br /><br />From ancient medical practices to doomsday scenarios, to disgusting food from around the world and the entire terrifying state of Florida, the facts in<strong> <em>Are You Sh*tting Me? </em></strong>are sure to entertain and disturb you at once. Unless of course you are already disturbed, in which case this is the book for you!</p>