Prepare to be disgusted, revolted and laugh out loud at these hideous facts from our putrid past with 1001 Hideous History Facts.  Did you know that Australian Aborigines have used kangaroo-skin bandages for thousands of years, and on the 25th October 1760, King George II became the second English king to die on the toilet? What about in the [...]

Well apparently an elephant produces a mind blowing pongy 20 kilos of dung a day! How Much Poo Does an Elephant Do? is another book by Mitchell Symons that has lots of quirky, weird and wonderful trivia for you. I found this one fascinating: in India the term “man-eating” is only applied to tigers that have [...]

I found a really, really cool looking book while I was putting books away today. It’s called Why eating bogeys is good for you. In my last post, I talked about jokes being funny when they have a punch line that takes your brain by surprise. Another way that jokes can be funny is when [...]

Vincent van Gogh was a Dutch artist in the 1800s. His most famous paintings are ‘The Starry Night’ & ‘Sunflowers’.
He became a painter in 1880 & died in 1890. In the last 10 years of his life he finished 900 paintings as well as 1100 drawings & sketches. Unfortunately, Vincent wasn’t very happy and he killed [...]

Yes the 2009 Ripley’s Believe It or Not edition is here. It even has a special glow on the dark cover! It has awesome and mind boggling facts as always. I am always amazed at the unbelievable things that people and animals and nature can come up with. Read on about body oddities, animal [...]

Are you interested in how stuff like mobile phones really work? If you are then you’ll love Cool Stuff Exploded. Learn all about gadgetry including things you might see in the future!
 
The Search for Vile Things (Volume 1) is all about bizarre and gross plants, food, insects and customs from around the world. There are [...]

I’ve just flipped open a book called ‘The Big Book of Boy Stuff’ to the farting page. We here at Wellington City Libraries know you lot love to read about disgusting facts… So here’s the goss on farting:
 
Boys and Girls fart the same amount, but girls hold them in more (to be polite) so theirs [...]

You are invited to join the Churlyshes on their quest to the East Indies to search for all things vile…. The Search for Vile Things by Jane Hammerslough describes the highly bizarre, and often disgusting, but very real plants, animals, food, insects, customs and artifacts that Ephemera Churlyshe (explorer extraordinaire) found and documented on her most [...]

How to Eat a Huhu Grub by Nick Turzynski is jam packed with a lot of stuff that you never even dreamed possible,  like making paper from sheep poo, extreme origami water bomb and chopstick trebuchet among others.  I am sure you’ll find this book extremely helpful on a dull afternoon. How to Eat a [...]

Psst! It’s true! There are bugs in your bed. Blood-sucking vampires, deadly dust-dwellers, toilet terrors and things that squish, squirm and slime. Did you have any idea you were sharing your house – and maybe your bed – with monsters? In this book by Heather Catchpole and Vanessa Woods you’ll meet a hideous creature that can [...]