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You Don't Want to Know

By: James Felton
Narrated by: James Buckley
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About this listen

Read by James Buckley a.k.a. unforgettable Jay from The Inbetweeners.

With his trademark brand of bulldozer-banter, Twitter legend James Felton guides you through the most morbidly fascinating facts you'll then wish you could forget.

Ever wondered why the chainsaw was invented?* How authorities dealt with a beached whale back in ye olde days of 1970?** Or what being a human decanter entails?*** Then you've come to the right place!

Here you'll find the maddest, strangest and downright grossest stories from history, nature and science that you don't want to know. (Except secretly you really do you masochistic, beastly person you.) Painfully funny and drop-your-jaw ridiculous, this is trivia from the cesspit of time that you won't be able to stop listening to once you start.

*To aid childbirth.

**They exploded it with 100 times too much dynamite and rained blubber down on unsuspecting people and buildings.

***Decency prevents us from answering this one here. You'll have to buy the book to find out.

©2021 James Felton (P)2021 Hachette Audio UK History History & Philosophy Science Funny

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As a bit of a history enthusiast there weren’t many of these tales I hadn’t heard before. However, once related by Mr Felton and read by Mr Buckley they add a new gross and hilarious perspective. Good, (not especially) clean, fun.

Gross stories well told

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Interesting stories are presented in a very easy to listen bitesized way. The narrator is not the best.

fun listen but hard going at times

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An easy book to listen along to and solicit the occasional laugh out loud moment.

As expected. Funny & enlightening

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Overall interesting and entertaining book with lots of weird stories from history. I’d definitely recommend to anyone interested in hearing about history in a lighthearted way.

Interesting and entertaining (but not laugh out loud)

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I managed about an hour and a half of this but had to stop. I found the facts interesting but the author tries so hard to be funny yet fails miserably. Every other line is a poor attempt at a joke. It’s not James Buckley’s delivery, he can only read what’s in front of him, but it’s cringeworthy to the point of unbearable. There is a weekly podcast that deals with interesting facts but actually does make me laugh, so I think I’ll stick with that. Shame.

Good content by tries to be funny to the point it’s unbearable

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