YOU DON'T WANT TO KNOW

'The Grisly, Jaw-Dropping and Most Macabre Moments from History, Nature and Beyond' is the sub-title of Twitter legend James Felton's book of morbidly fascinating facts told with his trademark brand of bulldozer-banter, here are the maddest, strangest and downright grossest stories you didn't want to know. Here are tales from science, medicine, history, recent history and anywhere weird facts lurk. Ever wondered why the chainsaw was invented? How authorities dealt with a beached whale back in the old days of 1970 or what a human decanter entails? The answer to the first question is to aid childbirth! The answer to the second is that they exploded it with 100 times too much dynamite and rained blubber down on unsuspecting people and buildings. Turn to page 66 for the gruesome answer to the third question! Read such topics as 'For ten years the Swedish thought Russia was invading their territory with submarines but it turned out to be herring farts'. 75 tales, this will become one of your favourite toilet books. 282 pages, cartoon illus.