Nature is the Worst: 500 reasons you'll never want to go outside again

Nature is the Worst: 500 reasons you'll never want to go outside again
by E. Reid Ross (Author) – January 2, 2017

Crashing waves, stunning sunsets, sprawling landscapes. Nature is beautiful, right? Wrong. Nature Is the Worst. Need proof?
- The giant pitcher plant not only eats bugs, it's large enough to trap small mammals.
- Almost 90 percent of the koala population in Australia has chlamydia.
- A hailstorm in Bangladesh in 1986 killed 92 people with giant balls of ice weighing more than 2 pounds apiece.
- Crocodiles can climb trees.
- The poisonous Dracunculus vulgaris, or voodoo lily, smells like rotting flesh, looks like it's splattered in blood, and features a central black spike that can grow up to 4 feet tall.
- Cats often kill their first litter.
- A "haboob" is a biblically huge wall of dust that can reduce visibility to zero, reach a height of 5,000 feet and stretch as far as 100 miles wide.
- Vampire bats are totally real, and yes, they love blood.
Nature Is the Worst contains hundreds of cringe-worthy, shocking facts you never knew about nature that prove the world is a terrifying and sometimes very strange place.

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Product Details
Paperback: 272 pages
Publisher: Adams Media (January 2, 2017)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1440599076
ISBN-13: 978-1440599071
Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.8 x 7.5 inches
Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces
Average Customer Review:
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Author This Book

E. Reid Ross resides in Maryland, and is a columnist/editor at Cracked.com. He's no scientist, that's for sure, but with a background in military intelligence and law enforcement, he's not just the author this book needs, he's exactly the one it deserves.