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Table of Contents Title Page Dedication CHAPTER ONE - Life and Death 10 STORIES OF BIZARRE BIRTHS 10 BIZARRE BIRTH DEFECTS 10 PAINFUL RITES OF PASSAGE 10 TRULY BIZARRE DEATHS 10 BIZARRE DEATH-RELATED FACTS 10 HORRIFYING PREMATURE BURIALS 10 BIZARRE APOCALYPSE SCENARIOS 10 FASCINATING AND BIZARRE DISINTERMENTS 10 BIZARRE DISAPPEARANCES 10 COMPOSERS WHO DIED ODD DEATHS 5 PROMINENT PEOPLE PUT ON TRIAL AFTER THEIR DEATH 12 PEOPLE WHO DIED PERFORMING 10 MOST TERRIFYING NATURAL DISASTERS 10 TRULY AWFUL WAYS TO BE KILLED BY AN ANIMAL 40 FAMOUS LAST WORDS CHAPTER TWO - Work and Play 10 UNUSUAL MAIL DELIVERIES AND EVENTS 10 CURIOUS EVERYDAY INVENTIONS 10 UTTERLY USELESS MILITARY COMMANDERS 10 ANCIENT JOBS THAT SUCKED BIG TIME 10 TRULY WEIRD JOBS FROM HISTORY 10 WORST URBAN JOBS IN AMERICA 10 BIZARRE HOBBYIST COLLECTIONS 10 MOST ANNOYING WASTES OF TIME 10 ARTISTS WHO WORK WITH BIZARRE MEDIA 10 MOST BIZARRE MODERN JOBS CHAPTER THREE - Between the Sheets 10 BIZARRE AND ICKY RELATIONSHIPS 10 BIZARRE PLACES TO GET MARRIED 10 INCREDIBLY BIZARRE SEXUAL PRACTICES 10 MOST FAMOUS PENISES 10 BIZARRE DATING WEBSITES 10 FASCINATING FACTS ABOUT SEX 10 MURDERERS YOU SECRETLY LOVE CHAPTER FOUR - Food and Drink 10 BIZARRE FOOD FESTIVALS 10 BIZARRE EATING DISORDERS 10 WEIRDEST FOODS TO GET YOU IN THE MOOD 9 UNUSUAL FOOD COMBINATIONS 10 MOST BIZARRE SOUPS 10 CRAZIEST DIETS EVER 10 FAILED MCDONALD’S PRODUCTS 10 UNUSUAL USES FOR COCA-COLA 10 WORST HALLOWEEN TREATS 10 UTTERLY DISGUSTING FOODS 10 FASCINATING AND STRANGE FOOD FACTS 10 FOODS WE LOVE THAT CAN KILL US 10 ANIMALS YOU WOULDN’T BELIEVE PEOPLE EAT CHAPTER FIVE - Days Gone By 10 BIZARRE MUSEUMS THAT WILL SCARE YOUR SOCKS OFF 10 GRUESOME MEDIEVAL TORTURE DEVICES 10 CREEPY ASPECTS OF VICTORIAN LIFE 20 FASCINATING HISTORICAL ODDITIES AND FACTS 10 HISTORICAL MONSTERS 10 TRULY BIZARRE TRADITIONS 10 SCANDALOUS FACTS ABOUT HISTORICAL FIGURES 10 MEDIEVAL URBAN LEGENDS 10 FORGOTTEN FACTS ABOUT MOMENTOUS EVENTS 10 REASONS THE DARK AGES WERE NOT DARK 15 QUIRKY FACTS ABOUT MEDIEVAL ENGLAND 10 ABSOLUTELY AWFUL ROMAN EMPERORS 10 UNFORTUNATE FATES OF ENGLISH KINGS 10 NOTABLE COINCIDENCES OF THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR 10 REALLY ANCIENT INVENTIONS YOU THINK ARE MODERN 20 ODDITIES YOU DON’T KNOW FROM HISTORY 10 BRUTAL HISTORICAL WEAPONS OF WAR CHAPTER SIX - Fact and Fiction 10 COMMON MISCONCEPTIONS 15 QUITE BIZARRE FACTLETS 10 FASCINATING FACTS ABOUT THE ROMANS 10 FASCINATING FACTS ABOUT THE MAYANS 10 FASCINATING FACTS ABOUT THE SCYTHIANS 15 FASCINATING FACTS ABOUT ANCIENT EGYPT 10 CURIOUS FACTS ABOUT PORNOGRAPHY 10 FACTS ABOUT MAIL -ORDER BRIDES 10 COMMONLY BELIEVED MYTHS 10 FASCINATING “FACTS” THAT ARE WRONG 10 FASCINATING INTERNATIONAL “FACTS” THAT ARE WRONG 15 FACTS YOU PROBABLY DON’T KNOW 10 ASTONISHING FACTS ABOUT DREAMS 15 FASCINATING FACTS ABOUT TOILETS 10 FACTS YOU DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT CHE GUEVARA 15 FASCINATING FACTLETS 10 MYTHS ABOUT NINJAS 10 MYTHS ABOUT THE COMMON COLD 10 MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT NEANDERTHALS 25 FASCINATING FACTS ABOUT CIGARETTE SMOKING 15 AMAZING FACTS ABOUT THE HUMAN BODY 10 MYTHS ABOUT DINOSAURS 10 BIZARRE FACTS ABOUT KIM JONG IL CHAPTER SEVEN - Heaven and Hell 10 POSSIBLE RESTING PLACES FOR THE HOLY GRAIL 10 POPES WHO DIED BRUTAL DEATHS 10 BIZARRE AND RIDICULOUS FATWAS 5 BIZARRE MYTHS ABOUT THE PAPACY 10 APPALLING RELIGIOUS SCANDALS 10 WEIRD RELIGIOUS PRACTICES 10 BIZARRE POSTMODERN RELIGIONS 10 MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT THE CATHOLIC CHURCH 10 PSYCHOACTIVE SUBSTANCES USED IN RELIGIOUS CEREMONIES 5 MOST BADASS NUNS OF ALL TIME 10 ASTONISHING (AND SOMETIMES WEIRD) BIBLICAL MIRACLES 10 PEOPLE WHO GIVE CHRISTIANITY A BAD NAME 10 BIZARRE THINGS YOU DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT CHRISTMAS CHAPTER EIGHT - Science and Nature 10 BIZARRE CASES OF MIND CONTROL 10 BIZARRE SLEEP DISORDERS 10 WEIRD AND WONDERFUL ODDITIES OF NATURE 10 UNABASHED QUACKS IN MEDICAL HISTORY 10 TRULY BIZARRE SCIENTIFIC STUDIES 10 MAMMALS WITH BIZARRE DEFENSES 10 BIZARRE SPIDERS 10 BIZARRE CAT TALES 10 BIZARRE SCIENTIFIC BELIEFS OF THE PAST 10 ODD DISEASES WITH NO KNOWN CAUSE 10 BIZARRE HOME MENAGERIES 15 TRULY BIZARRE CREATURES 10 BIZARRE AND DREADFUL MENTAL DISORDERS 15 UNUSUAL PREHISTORIC CREATURES 10 BIZARRE MEDICAL TREATME NTS 10 BIZARRE AND FASCINATING MEDICAL TALES 10 EXTREMELY STRANGE PHOBIAS 11 UNBELIEVABLE MINIATURES 10 WRONGLY ATTRIBUTED INVENTIONS 10 SCI-FI INVENTIONS THAT SHOULD NOT BE INVENTED 10 MYSTERIES OF OUTER SPACE 10 EXTINCT CREATURES THAT AREN’T EXTINCT 10 SURREAL CREATURES 10 CREATURES THAT CRAWLED OUT OF YOUR NIGHTMARES CHAPTER NINE - Entertainment 10 BIZARRE KUNG FU MOVIES 10 BIZARRE TV SHOWS FOR KIDS 10 MYSTERIOUS FICTITIOUS ISLANDS 10 MOST EVIL DISNEY VILLAINS 10 BANNED CONTROVERSIAL ALBUM COVERS 10 ROCK ACTS THAT SABOTAGED THEIR CAREERS 10 CLOWNS YOU DON’T WANT TO MESS WITH 10 BIZARRE AND TRAGIC HOLLYWOOD SUICIDES 10 MOST EVIL VILLAINS IN ANIME 10 WEIRD AND CONFUSING FILMS 10 MOST RIDICULOUS COMEDIES 10 SUPERHUMAN FEATS IN CHESS HISTORY 12 MOST CONTROVERSIAL VIDEO GAMES 10 ODDEST VILLAINS FROM SCOOBY-DOO 10 MOST CONTROVERSIAL STAR TREK EPISODES 10 HIDDEN IMAGES FOUND IN CARTOONS 10 VILEST VILLAINS OF FICTIONAL LITERATURE 10 BIZARRE TOYS FOR KIDS CHAPTER TEN - Around the World 10 BIZARRE TOURIST ATTRACTIONS 10 SPOOKY TRAVEL DESTINATIONS 10 BIZARRE MICRONATIONS 10 PLACES YOU CAN’T GO 10 PLACES YOU DON’T WANT TO VISIT 10 SCARIEST FILIPINO MONSTERS 10 BIZARRE CREATURES FROM JAPANESE FOLKLORE 15 TRULY ODD GEOGRAPHICAL FACTS 10 COMMON MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT BRITAIN 10 ODDITIES OF THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT 10 PLACES WITH MORBID NAMES 10 MOST DANGEROUS PLACES ON EARTH 10 INCREDIBLE REAL - LIFE CASTAWAY TALES 10 UNIQUE AND AMAZING PLACES ON EARTH 10 MOST TERRIFYING PLACES ON EARTH 10 AMAZING CITIES YOU’LL NEVER VISIT 15 BOGEYMEN FROM AROUND THE WORLD 10 BIZARRE TRAVEL GUIDES CHAPTER ELEVEN - Sports 10 ODD DISCONTINUED OLYMPIC SPORTS 10 SPOOKY SPORTS CURSES 10 BIZARRE SPORTS 10 INCREDIBLY DANGEROUS SPORTS 10 MARTIAL ARTS FROM OUTSIDE ASIA 10 WORLD CUP CONTROVERSIES 15 WORST SPORTING MOMENTS OF ALL TIME 10 DEATHS OF PRO WRESTLERS 10 EVENTS THAT HAVE KILLED BOXING 10 STORIES BEHIND CRAZY SPORTS TRADITIONS 10 STIRRING AND UNEXPECTED OLYMPIC MOMENTS 14 THINGS YOU DON’T KNOW ABOUT THE ANCIENT OLYMPICS CHAPTER TWELVE - Miscellaneous 10 URBAN LEGENDS THAT CAUSED A MORAL PANIC 10 BIZARRE COLLEGE COURSES 10 BIZARRE CASES OF MASS HYSTERIA 10 BIZARRE BODY MODIFICATIONS 10 MOST CONTROVERSIAL FLAGS 10 BIZARRE THEORIES AND THE FACTS SURROUNDING THEM 10 HUMAN SIDESHOW FREAKS 10 BIZARRE GOVERNMENT PUBLICITY STUNTS 10 BIZARRE MODERN PARANORMAL PHENOMENA 10 BIZARRE ENIGMAS THAT DEFY EXPLANATION 10 ROADS THAT WILL SCARE YOU STUPID 20 WEIRD SUPERSTITIONS 20 FANTASTICALLY NAMED PEOPLE 10 HUMAN CREATIONS ATTRIBUTED TO ALIENS 10 BIZARRE AND OBSCURE CONSPIRACY THEORIES 10 WEIRD THINGS CARS HAVE BEEN COVERED WITH 10 BIZARRE HUMAN MYSTERIES 10 TRULY RIDICULOUS CRIMINAL ACTS 7 ESSENTIAL ZOMBIE SURVIVAL TIPS Photo Credits Acknowledgements About the Editor Copyright Page I dedicate this book to my brothers, Stewart and Andrew Frater, and to my sisters, Catriona Anderson and Sarah Jones. With all my love.

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