This book is a collection of The ODDEST...the WEIRDEST...the most AMAZING facts and feats from all over the world including:BIZARRE CRIMES: Graham "Cutter" Carter, the bespectacled careers adviser, who used to cut large circles from the backs of women's skirts in central London. WEIRD ANIMAL NEWS: The pigs whose own methane, ignited by a spark, exploded their shed in Verona, Italy, killing them all.INCREDIBLE URBAN MYTHS: What is the curse that hangs over the US presidency? POTTY WISDOM: FROM AROUND THE WORLD: Kiss the hand that cannot bite (Romania); Thrash your apprentice while he has not yet broken the water jug (Bulgaria).Astonishing royal eccentricities: during a visit to Germany, Peter of Russia's son used his hosts' curtains as a stand-in for toilet paper. Zany sporting moments: The French dwarf who won the right to be thrown across rooms for his living after appealing against the French governments ban on "dwarf tossing". Jokes of the day: A horse walks into a bar and orders a drink. The bartender says. "Why the long face?" From elk-dropping earrings to radioactive watches, a wealth of information, all of it incredible, much of it improbable, but all of it true. Be amazed, be appalled, but, above all, be enthralled by this cornucopia of craziness.