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Shocking, Ironic or Simply Sad Pieces of Trivia
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Nayden Kostov

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Following the success of my trivia website RaiseYourBrain, I published several award-winning compilations of hard-to-believe facts that have reached hundreds of thousands of readers. One of the chapters in each trivia book was “Disturbing Facts about Our World”. I decided to fill an entire volume with facts about upsetting crimes and mayhem, combined with unbelievable yet real instances of misfortune and misery. This is a book where grim examples of bigotry and hypocrisy are intertwined with amusing stories of bad luck. In the spirit of the times we live in, I dedicated a whole chapter to COVID-19 trivia and weird medical conditions.
I am well aware that many potential readers might be overwhelmed by the condensed negativity, but hey… a fact is a fact!
Continue to read if you are curious to learn:
- Why were the trousers of New Zealand’s farmers exploding?
- What is the depressing origin of the phrase “Hip Hip, Hooray”?
- Why did the Spanish Habsburgs royal family sleep with human mummies?
- Why was it legal in Iceland until 2015 to kill Basque people?
- Who was the “Deep Throat” informer from the Watergate scandal?
- How many people were killed trying to cross the notorious Berlin Wall?
- Why do snakes make a better pet than cats or dogs?
- How can millipedes cause a train crash?
- What is the etymology of “thug”?
- What are the chances of getting killed by rubbish falling from space?
- How did polygamist men in Kuwait manage to visit all their wives during the coronavirus lockdown?
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