Award-winning author: 2020 Readers' Favorite Silver Medal***'A fun mix of facts that will surprise and amuse you.' The Wishing Shelf Book Awards 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?However incredible these pieces of trivia might sound, all entries have been verified and fact-checked.