The Giant Bathroom Reader

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This book is a collection of The ODDEST...the WEIRDEST...the most AMAZING facts and feats from all over the world 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 The pigs whose own methane, ignited by a spark, exploded their shed in Verona, Italy, killing them all.INCREDIBLE URBAN What is the curse that hangs over the US presidency? POTTY FROM AROUND THE Kiss the hand that cannot bite (Romania); Thrash your apprentice while he has not yet broken the water jug (Bulgaria).Astonishing royal during a visit to Germany, Peter of Russia's son used his hosts' curtains as a stand-in for toilet paper. Zany sporting 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 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.