Are You Sh*tting Me?

<b>Blue Ice Meteors and Beaver Ass Oh My! </b><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&#225;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 <i>1001 Facts That Will Scare The S#*t Out Of You</i> comes this new collection of 1004 (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<b> <i>Are You Sh*tting Me? </i></b>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!