Why Headless Chickens Run [antikvár]

book is fi/M to bi/rsiing with stories and -Tacts that are soloPiker^,weird and astounding that yoi; coi/ld well be forgiv^en for thinking they aren't trtre.For instance, there's the utterly astonishing stoiy of a chicken called Mike who walked around without his head for eighteen whole months. And then there's the really daft tit about the batty boffin who not only had himself roasted alive in an oven to 'see what would happen', but also had himself lowered into an active volcano. There's also the tale of the bonkers Yorkshire farmer who liked to go fox hunting on his pet bull, not with foxhounds, but accompanied by his pack of pet pigs! And there's a rather sickening saga of a dotiy doctorwho encouraged his patients to puke straight into his own mouth! All of which are totally true! As is eveiything else in this collection of all things amazing and out-of-this-world. So if you want to find out all sorts of completely bonkers and astounding true stuff such as CF HOW to hypnoiize an alliga-torfT WHAT objecis Ki;ndreds of children gel sii/ck Lrp their noses ev^ery yearCF WHO had all the cows on his country estate stencilled with a pretty pattern becaLfse he thought it would make them 'look nicer'CT WHICH schoolboy was whipped for not smoking at breakfastCT WHAT a 'sno 11 ygoster' is