10 Ways to Recycle a Corpse: and 100 More Dreadfully Distasteful Lists

Karl Shaw

10 Ways to Recycle a Corpse: and 100 More Dreadfully Distasteful Lists
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Random House USA Inc
Country
United States
Published
27 September 2011
Pages
320
ISBN
9780307720405

10 Ways to Recycle a Corpse: and 100 More Dreadfully Distasteful Lists

Karl Shaw

Prepare to be even more revolted, flabbergasted, appalled, and completely entertained by this incredible follow-up collection of absolutely true trivia from the author of 5 People Who Died During Sex. Nothing is too insane, too inane, or too sacred for Karl Shaw’s eclectic lists of the world’s very worst.

DID YOU KNOW…;…that according to recent estimates (2010) your body is worth between $10,000-$100,000 on today’s open market-from companies legitimately trading body parts from willing donors to recognized medical facilities?;;…that the great plague of Athens in 404, which lead to the defeat of the Athenians in the Peloponnesian War, was probably caused by contaminated cereals?;;…that Benjamin Franklin liked to sit stark naked in front of his open windows, calling the practice taking an air bath ?;;…that in the last days of his life, the actor Steve McQueen lived on a diet largely comprised of boiled alligator skin and apricot pits, washed down with urine?

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