You Did What?: Mad Plans and Great Historical Disasters

10 best books like You Did What?: Mad Plans and Great Historical Disasters (Bill Fawcett): Sex Lives of the Kings & Queens of England: An Irreverent Expose of the Monarchs from Henry VIII to the Present Day, The Mental Floss History of the United States: The (Almost) Complete and (Entirely) Entertaining Story of America, American History Revised: 200 Startling Facts That Never Made It into the Textbooks, Under the Covers and Between the Sheets: The Inside Story Behind Classic Characters, Authors, Unforgettable Phrases, and Unexpected Endings, The Handy History Answer Book, The Ultimate Book of Top Ten Lists: A Mind-Boggling Collection of Fun, Fascinating and Bizarre Facts on Movies, Music, Sports, Crime, Celebrities, History, Trivia and More, The Executioner Always Chops Twice: Ghastly Blunders on the Scaffold, The Utterly, Completely, And Totally Useless Fact-o-pedia, The World's Greatest Book of Useless Information: If You Thought You Knew All the Things You Didn't Need to Know - Think Again, Mental Floss: Cocktail Party Cheat Sheets

AuthorNigel Cawthorne
ISBN1853755362
Prion’s internationally bestselling Sex Lives series presents lighthearted accounts of the sexual escapades of major figures in history, politics, religion, the arts, and film. Irreverent and gossipy, the books are packed with carnal tidbits and eye-opening revelations. The headlines of...
The Mental Floss History of the United States: The (Almost) Complete and (Entirely) Entertaining Story of America
AuthorErik Sass
ISBN0061928224
Smarter than your old history teacher, funnier than the founding fathers, and more American than apple pie, The Mental Floss History of the United States is an almost (but not entirely) comprehensive primer on American history (or at least, the good stuff). From the editors of MentalFloss.com and...
American History Revised: 200 Startling Facts That Never Made It into the Textbooks
AuthorSeymour Morris Jr.
ISBN0307587606
“American History Revised is as informative as it is entertaining and humorous. Filled with irony, surprises, and long-hidden secrets, the book does more than revise American history, it reinvents it.” —James Bamford,
bestselling author of The Puzzle Palace, Body of Secrets, and The...
AuthorC. Alan Joyce
ISBN1606520342
Bibliophiles, grab your glasses! Here is a compendium of interesting--and often scandalous--facts and quips about the literary world. Featuring authors and tomes of yesteryear and yesterday, from Tolkien's Middle- earth to Jeffrey Eugenides's Middlesex, you'll sections such as:
You Don't...
AuthorRebecca Ferguson
ISBN0760746494
The past is filled with stories of personal struggles, hard-fought triumphs, interesting, trivia, common myths and serious misconceptions. Now, with The Handy History Answer Book you can step back in time and uncover the real truth behind the events that shaped the world leading up to the end of the...
The Ultimate Book of Top Ten Lists: A Mind-Boggling Collection of Fun, Fascinating and Bizarre Facts on Movies, Music, Sports, Crime, Celebrities, History, Trivia and More
AuthorListVerse.com
ISBN1569757151

BIZARRE STUFF, AMAZING FACTS, ASTONISHING MYSTERIES, NATURAL WONDERS, LITTLE-KNOWN PEOPLE, USEFUL TIPS AND MUCH, MUCH MORE

From crime, movies and music to science, history and literature, this book offers an incredible array of intriguing top-10 lists, including:

•Urban...
The Executioner Always Chops Twice: Ghastly Blunders on the Scaffold
AuthorGeoffrey Abbott
ISBN0312325630
A morbidly fascinating mixture of bungled executions ,strange last requests, and classic final one-liners from medieval times to the present day.

Sometimes it's hard to be an executioner, trying to keep someone from popping up to make a quip when they should have spectacularly sunk without...
The Utterly, Completely, And Totally Useless Fact-o-pedia
AuthorCharlotte Lowe
ISBN0007837933
Improve your small talk and sharpen your conversational skills with this giant collection of ridiculously useless but endlessly fascinating facts. Organized from A to Z, there are over 1,000 trivia tidbits for you to persue. Start off with little-known facts about Aristotle and Barbie, and continue...
The World's Greatest Book of Useless Information: If You Thought You Knew All the Things You Didn't Need to Know - Think Again
AuthorNoel Botham
ISBN0399535020
From the creators of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Book of Useless Information-a collection of even greater insignificance.

More useless than ever before! Impress know-it-all friends with this all-new hodgepodge of frivolous facts and silly statistics that no one really needs to...
AuthorMangesh Hattikudur
ISBN0060882514
Friends? Romans? Countrymen?
You never know whom you'll have to impress
at your next corporate shindig or keg party.

Whatever the target audience, mental_floss knows staring facedown into the punch bowl isn't the trick. In fact, that's exactly why we're handing you Cocktail Party...
Listverse.com's Ultimate Book of Bizarre Lists: Fascinating Facts and Shocking Trivia on Movies, Music, Crime, Celebrities, History, and More
AuthorJamie Frater
ISBN1569758174
FREAKS OF NATURE, ODD CRIMES, SHOCKING DEATHS,
DEVASTATING DISASTERS, BLOOD-CURDLING RITES,

CRAZY CONSPIRACIES & MUCH, MUCH MORE

•Gruesome Torture Devices

•Mass Hysteria Outbreaks

•Unbelievable Miniatures

•Disturbingly Scary...
Mental Floss Presents Be Amazing: Glow in the Dark, Control the Weather, Perform Your Own Surgery, Get Out of Jury Duty, Identify a Witch, Colonize a Nation, ... Girl, Make a Zombie, Start Your Own Religion
AuthorMaggie Koerth-Baker
ISBN0061251488
Be amazing

Who says you can't? It's time to get off the couch and take your life to the next level.

Step one: stand on the shoulders of geniuses

What good are the world's greatest geniuses if you can't muddy their shoulder pads and use their accomplishments as a step stool? mental_floss...
Fact. Fact. Bullsh*t!: Learn the Truth and Spot the Lie on Everything from Tequila-Made Diamonds to Tetris's Soviet Roots - Plus Tons of Other Totally Random Facts from Science, History and Beyond!
AuthorNeil Patrick Stewart
ISBN1440525536
Think you can spot the fake?

Think again. It's going to be a lot harder than you think to pick out the BS. Each entry hides one well-crafted fib among a pair of unbelievable truths. And it's up to you to figure out what's fascinating and what's fabricated on everything from koala bears to Confucius...
AuthorCary McNeal
ISBN1605506249
Fact: Chocolate contains the alkaloid theobromine, which in high doses can be toxic to humans, and in even small amounts can kill dogs, parrots, horses, and cats.
This means that despite its name, the Kit-Kat candy bar is not a recommended snack for your kitty-cat. I wonder how many cats have died...
Isaac Asimov's Book of Facts
AuthorIsaac Asimov
ISBN0517065037
Within the pages of "Isaac Asimov's Book of Facts "are many hours of entertaining and informative reading--little-known facts that will make you exclaim, time and again, "I didn't know that!"
Here are some of the intriguing facts you will find in this book:
-Emperor Caligula appointed his...
The 101 Most Influential People Who Never Lived
AuthorAllan Lazar
ISBN0061132217
Supposedly a discussion of “How Characters of Fiction, Myth, Legends, Television, and Movies Have Shaped Our Society, Changed Our Behavior, and Set the Course of History”—to quote the rather lengthy subtitle—this book instead presents 101 explanations of who 101 characters are—there’s...
I Never Knew There Was a Word For It
AuthorAdam Jacot de Boinod
ISBN0141028394
From 'shotclog', a Yorkshire term for a companion only tolerated because he is paying for the drinks, to Albanian having 29 words to describe different kinds of eyebrows, the languages of the world are full of amazing, amusing and illuminating words and expressions that will improve absolutely everybody's...
America's Dumbest Criminals: Wild and Weird Stories of Fumbling Felons, Clumsy Crooks, and Ridiculous Robbers
AuthorDaniel Butler
ISBN1558533729
100 crazy stories of America's dumbest criminals.


WARNING: The crimes you are about to read are true. The names have been changed . . . to protect the ignorant.


Here is the ultimate collection of the most incredibly stupid and painfully dumb attempts at crime ever brought...
Mental Floss: Genius Instruction Manual
AuthorMental Floss
ISBN0060882530
Remember that time you bumped into Stephen Hawking at the clambake and his monologue on string theory went completely over your head? Man, was that awkward. Or remember the time you were at a party and someone asked, "Who knows how to perform open-heart surgery?" and you were the only one who didn't raise...
Curious Folks Ask 2: 188 Real Answers on Our Fellow Creatures, Our Planet, and Beyond
AuthorSherry Seethaler
ISBN0137057393
"Why do lizards do pushups? What will happen if the Earth's magnetic field reverses? How does water get from the roots to the tops of trees? Why and how do stars die? Is there really such a thing as the green flash? "In "Curious Folks Ask 2: 188 Answers about Our Fellow Creatures, Our Planet, and Beyond,"...
Black May: The Epic Story of the Allies' Defeat of the German U-Boats in May 1943
AuthorMichael Gannon
In May 1943, Allied sea and air forces won a stunning, dramatic, and vital victory over the largest and most powerful submarine force ever sent to sea, sinking forty-one German U-boats and damaging thirty-seven others. It was the forty-fifth month of World War II, and by the end of May the Germans were...
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