Grossopedia: A Startling Collection of Repulsive Trivia You Won’t Want to Know!

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Grossopedia: A Startling Collection of Repulsive Trivia You Won’t Want to Know!
Rachel Federman

GRUESOME, DISGUSTING, AND ABSOLUTELY VILE!

Loaded with hundreds of disgusting, repulsive, gruesome, and loathsome facts, this is by far the foulest collection of trivia around.

Try not to gag as your read about bad breath, bile, burps, ear wax, scabs, sneezes, snot, spit, and sweat. Avert your eyes or discover the truth about flesh-eating bacteria, maggots, sour milk, rotten fruit, and toe jam.

With gross-out facts about animals, the human body, the environment, cultures around the world, and the nasties of your very own home, you won’t be able to stop reading – though maybe you’ll wish you had!

GROSS TOPICS:

Animal kingdom, including fire-ant nests and shark’s spiral poop

Human body, including bad breath, farts, pus, and rigor mortis

Around the house, including dead skin cells and pillow mites

History, including Black Plague and guillotine clean-up

Environment, including the amount of pee in public pools, litter in outer space, and sewage in oceans

Disgusting customs, including being buried alive, maggot-infested-cheese, and the Moose Dropping Festival

Medicine, including maggot therapy and uses of crocodile poop

Dedication

For my fifth-grade teacher, Mr. McInerney, who pushed us way beyond our comfort zone in a magical classroom where we were encouraged to experiment, learn from failure, face our fears, and prioritize true growth over outward measures of success—an approach to teaching that was rare then and, thanks to dwindling funds for public education and current testing mandates, is now all but extinct.

CONTENTS

Cover (#ua6c1d212-4501-5a72-9cf9-04b57d4c81b9)

Title Page (#u3da7f76f-e6e4-5358-a3fc-8d4f4064965a)

Dedication (#udb3a3538-a185-574a-b6fc-ff333c100cd3)

Introduction

Bizarre Cuisine (#u8ba3e6e2-ce3e-59b2-a901-723014165a27)

Outlandish Animal Land (#u171850ac-fe51-5ab2-aef9-3630bb0f08de)

Wickedly Weird News (#ub6bbb089-6d72-5fa0-b743-76a918d983ce)

Fetid Festivals (#ue9185095-c27d-51db-a3ff-412b0a00d68f)

The Horrors of Modern Science (#u666a7ab3-bc67-51ef-aee9-1692fb965ada)

To Each His Own (Disgusting Habits) (#ucd977ed3-81fe-5d9e-a03a-01ef475102b5)

Unnatural Wonders (#u99c0eaf8-90f1-5686-ac2b-43ad4a2d1fb9)

The Indecent Tourist (#udb8d5ccd-0ccf-5d9c-9960-2db78019b97d)

Creepy Crawlies (#u0c2eea50-8425-52c6-a931-d46865b64978)

Icky History (#u858959ce-59bc-5936-ac2c-9a3a55516e15)

Around the (Roach-Infested) House (#u40161279-0b1d-5cde-9342-e4ed511206a6)

Eco-Unfriendly (#u1e703f39-053b-5aa5-a2dc-f6b8b1e984c5)

Barbaric Bodies (#u19f68165-cfca-5c55-8a3e-d183e912f1eb)

Farts & Culture (#u9488b60a-ed73-56ea-add1-561d07da4075)

Gross Rebellion (#u8cffebc8-606d-5d39-9c9f-62e443d62bca)

Postscript: What is Disgust?

Selected Bibliography

Illustration Credits

Acknowledgments

About the Author

About the Illustrator (#u62d78799-9b56-5098-8b0c-3e63d9fe812b)

Copyright page (#u669c9e27-c949-5dd5-b7fc-971c3bbccb39)

About the Publisher