You Don't Want to Know: The grisly, jaw-dropping and most macabre moments from history, nature and beyond

· Little, Brown Book Group · Narrated by James Buckley
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Read by James Buckley aka unforgettable Jay from The Inbetweeners'

With his trademark brand of bulldozer-banter, Twitter legend James Felton guides you through the most morbidly fascinating facts you'll then wish you could forget.

Ever wondered why the chainsaw was invented?* How authorities dealt with a beached whale back in ye olde days of 1970?** Or what being a human decanter entails?*** Then you've come to the right place!

Within these pages you'll find the maddest, strangest and downright grossest stories from history, nature and science that you don't want to know. (Except secretly you really do you masochistic, beastly person you.) Illustrated, painfully funny and drop-your-jaw ridiculous, this is trivia from the cesspit of time that you won't be able to stop reading once you start.

*To aid childbirth.
**They exploded it with 100 times too much dynamite and rained blubber down on unsuspecting people and buildings.
***Decency prevents us from answering this one here. You'll have to buy the book to find out.

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5.0
1 review
Daniel Barclay
October 28, 2021
A comical spin on some of the most twisted, depraved acts of humanity......... and penguins. It's rare that you get a chance to laugh at some really gruesome deaths in public but this book offers that, as well as a gory respect for medicine as you clench at the accounts of the guinea-pigs of yore. All read by an Inbetweener. Would recommend.
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About the author

James Felton is a writer and journalist, whose articles regularly appear in the Guardian, Independent, Daily Mash and IFL Science. As a writer for television, his work includes the BAFTA award-winning The Dog Ate My Homework. His books 52 Times Britain was a Bellend and Sunburn have between them sold over 100,000 copies. He has over 330,000 followers on Twitter and routinely goes viral.

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