Weird World

This audiobook is for highly sensitive people who have felt out of place in the modern world. It provides a narrative that describes how they fit into a lineage of creatives throughout history. Jacob Nordby offers a bold new definition of success in the modern era. "The only success now is living and creating a work-of-art life: unique, rich with meaning, naked of anything we don't care about, and ruthless about carving out something absolutely real from a world that has gorged itself on fakeness and become critically ill from it."

Matthew Santoro's originality and humor have attracted millions of fans, making him a beloved YouTube star. His weekly videos on amazing and little-known facts are eagerly anticipated by his many subscribers and followers around the world. In his first-ever book, Matthew's love of weird and wacky knowledge explodes with new facts and stories from around the planet and beyond. Surprising and always entertaining, Mind = Blown offers even more of Matthew's unique take on this hilarious, crazy world.

First published in 2022 ‘IT’S THE LAW! The Little Book of Bizarre, Strange, Unusual, and Weird Laws from Around the World’ contains 458 unique entries from 66 countries. When travelling carry this little book wherever you go to help reduce the chances of being culturally insensitive, causing personal embarrassment, annoying the local population, being arrested, or even to avoid being fined or imprisoned. It is also perfect for using some of the entries as conversation starters, or for intriguing questions in a trivia quiz… such as: Where are you forbidden from dying? Where are ...

The insect world is a fascinating place. You may not think so. You may think insects are gross. Or scary. Or dangerous. But there’s so much more to insects than what meets the eye. Told through hilarious prose and packed full of jaw-dropping facts, Brenna Maloney’s first-person narrative presents the big picture on bugs. Insects play a critical role on our planet—as pollinators, garbage collectors, artistic muses, research partners, and even as “dinner.”

Who doesn’t love random facts and odd trivia? Have fun learning weird and curious facts in this audiobook of unusual knowledge and funny trivia. Discover fun and interesting facts about the world and our fascinating history. An amazing facts book for kids and teenagers of all ages, full of fascinating facts and trivia to educate and stimulate young minds. Discover fascinating new knowledge you will keep forever!

Like millions of others, Louis’ plans were mothballed by the onset of COVID. Unable to escape to the porn sets, prisons and maximum-security psychiatric units that are his usual journalistic beat, he began reporting on a location even more full of pitfalls and hostile objects of inquiry: his own home during a pandemic. Theroux the Keyhole is an honest, hilarious and ultimately heartwarming diary of the weirdness of family life in COVID World.

Award-winning author: 2020 Readers' Favorite Silver Medal *** 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 ...

318 Unbelievable Facts: The Most Unbelievable Facts You Didn’t Know 🤯 Explore 318 mind-blowing facts that are so strange, they sound made up—but they're absolutely true. 🌍 Uncover hidden wonders from around the globe, including natural oddities, historical twists, and bizarre science. 🧬 Dive into scientific paradoxes and strange phenomena that defy logic and expectation. 🔍 Each fact is carefully researched and explained, giving you the "wow" and the "why." 😂 Includes quirky, hilarious, and downright weird trivia perfect for conversation starters. 📚 Great for trivia ...

At World’s Edge: Seven Liminal Stories from the Edge of Reality Beyond the borders of maps and memory lie worlds that obey no known rules. In this haunting anthology of speculative fiction and dark fantasy, seven stories explore what happens when reality thins—where time unravels, identity dissolves, and the familiar becomes unrecognizable. From a girl who returns from a doorless frame altered by the realm she crossed, to a lighthouse powered by memory guarding against something older than night, these tales are eerie, poetic, and charged with slow-blooming dread. Each story is a ...

Do you love head-scratchers, trivia, and strange history? Then this book is a must-listen! We’ve all heard wild stories that seem too impossible to be true - this book contains stories you’ve likely never heard of but need to listen to....

No need to spend the day at an archaeological dig when you can simply make a cup of tea, clamber into your comfiest chair, and settle in with The Encyclopedia of the Weird and Wonderful, a compilation of 92 funny, strange, and strangely funny tales throughout human history.

Embark on a wild and whimsical journey through time with “Weird Things in History and Why the Heck They Happened.” This extraordinary book peels back the layers of conventional history to reveal the forgotten, the bizarre, and the downright hilarious events that shaped our world today. Prepare to be entertained, enlightened, and left in awe as you uncover 25 offbeat historical tales that somehow managed to miss the pages of your school textbooks.

In When Churchill Slaughtered Sheep and Stalin Robbed a Bank, the second installment in his outrageously entertaining series, History's Unknown Chapters, Giles Milton shows his customary historical flair as he delves into the little-known stories from history, like when Stalin was actually assassinated with poison by one of his inner circle; the Russian scientist, dubbed the "Red Frankenstein", who attempted to produce a human-ape hybrid through ethically dubious means; and much more.

In Africa there are over one million different species of animals, insects, and birds, not including the ones undiscovered by the human civilization. Of these million animals, include the tallest, heaviest, and strongest land animals in the world, and we are going to learn all about them and the vast environments in which they live in. From the Lion King to Black Panther, the continent has captured the popular imagination many times.

350+ Alexa Easter Eggs. The Hidden world of your Echo devices.

Who knew that the great country of Canada is named for a mistake? How about "bedswerver", the best Elizabethan insult to hurl at a cheating boyfriend? By exploring the delightful back stories of the 250 words in Wordcatcher, listeners will be lured by language and entangled in etymologies. It takes a special wordcatcher to create a treasure chest of remarkable words and their origins, and any word lover will relish the stories that Cousineau has discovered.

Drew Shipley and his friends have defied death before—but this time, their luck may run out. With their best friend captured and the sinister Lord Malgore increasing in strength, the stakes have never been higher. To save Sheela and stop Malgore’s reign, Drew and his companions must embark on a dangerous journey beyond their world, navigating through mind-bending dimensions filled with monstrous gremlins, possessed adults, and traitors lurking in the shadows. Their mission: to deliver the legendary Polar Starship to the young and scattered Dimension Warriors—the last hope against ...

Being Weird Is Your Superpower: 5 People Who Turned Their Weirdness into Success: They say you are weird and that you don't fit in with the in-crowd. Well, 5 very powerful and successful people were just like you, so please embrace your weirdness. It is that weirdness that makes you special and unique as a person, and this e-book will motivate and inspire you to tap into that weird greatness that lays dormient within you. This great book fully explains why being weird makes you interesting and can give you an unfair advantage in life. Please empower yourself with this good read.

The first installment in Giles Milton's outrageously entertaining series, History's Unknown Chapters: colorful and accessible, intelligent and illuminating, Milton shows his customary historical flair as he delves into the little-known stories from the past. There's the cook aboard the Titanic, who pickled himself with whiskey and survived in the icy seas where most everyone else died. There's the man who survived the atomic bomb in both Hiroshima and Nagasaki. And there's many, many more.

Book # 5 in the Strangest Animals series. Describes some of the most unusual mammals from around the globe.