Attack of the Killer Facts!

1,001 Terrifying Truths about the Little Green Men, Government Mind-Control, Flesh-Eating Bacteria, and Goat-Sucking Vampires

Eric Gryzymkowski

• Publisher: Adams Media
• Year: 2011
• eBook ISBN:
  9781440525391
• Print ISBN:
  9781440511967

Factoid Attack: Inherent sadistic streak in dentists confirmed!
The electric chair was invented by a dentist, Dr. Alfred Southwick. Not surprising, dentists have been perfecting torture devices for centuries.

Factoid Attack: Galaxy at risk! Intelligent life in short supply!
In 1961, Astronomer Frank Drake estimated the number of probable intelligent civilizations inhabiting our galaxy. Using conservative numbers, that estimate came to 10,000. Unfortunately, we are not included in that total.
Factoid Attack: Colorblind bulls hate all matadors equally!
The color of a matador's cape, or muleta, is traditionally red, which is widely believed to irritate the bull. In reality, bulls are colorblind, so it is irrelevant what color cape a matador uses to antagonize them. Shot in the dark, but maybe it's the being stabbed with swords bit that pisses them off.
Forget Fringe, Warehouse 13, and The X-Files. In this book, you'll find more weird and wacko truths than in all those combined. From golden poison dart frogs with enough venom to kill ten grown humans to cockroaches that can survive radiation 15 times stronger than what kills people, scary and strange just got scarier—and stranger!

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Introduction
• Microscopic Mayhem: Germs, Bacteria, and Microscopic Organisms Sure to Ruin Your Day
• Extreme Insects: Creepy Crawly Creatures That Sting, Bite, Maimbite, Kill, and Maim
• Freaky Food: Everything You Never Wanted to Know about Food
• Circus Freaks: The Truth about the Wolf Boy and Other Freaks of Nature
• Insane Asylums and Crazy People: It’s Not a Crime If Your Dog Made You Do It
• Human Abnormalities: We Are Nothing If Not Weird
• What’S This Thing Do?: Dumb Discoveries and Terrifying Contraptions We Wish We Could Uninventuninvent
• Myths, Urban Urban Legends, and And Hearsay: If Enough People Saw It, It Trueit Must Be
• Animal Oddities: In Nature, Fact Is Always Stranger Than Fiction
• Paranormal Phenomena: The Unexplainable World of the Weird
• Aliens and Ufos: Where They Are Hiding and Why We Should Probably Stop Looking for Them
• Death by Lava Lamp: And Other Darwin Award Candidates and Other Darwin Award Candidates
• Let’s See What Happens: Strange Failed Experiments and the Even Weirder Ones That Actually Succeeded
• Weird Worldwide Customs: When In Rome …
• Even Crazier Phenomena: The Weirdest Facts The Universe Has to Offer the Weirdest Facts The Universe Has to Offer