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5 people who died during sex & 100 other terribly tasteless lists

Book information

Publisher
Crown Publishing Group;Broadway Books
Year
2007
ISBN
9780767922968, 0767922964
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
1010 kB (1034249 bytes)
Edition
1st ed
Pages
xiv, 286 pages\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52

Description

All in perfectly bad tastePrepare 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 works of Carl Jung and Laurens van der Post? (From "History's 10 Least Romantic Honeymoons") ... that the best-dressed gentlemen in medieval England exposed their genitals below a short-fitting tunic? (From "History's 10 Greatest Fashion Mistakes") ... that Alfred Hitchcock suffered from ovophobia--fear of eggs? (From "10 Phobias of the Famous") ... that King Louis XIV ...

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