Earth a Visitor's Guide by Ian Harrison

Packed with unputdownable trivia, Earth: A visitor's guide is full of everything you ever needed to know about our planet and the people who live on it.
It has odd creatures doing very strange things - dressing pets up as movie stars and trying to walk backwards up mountains, playing bizarre sports such as toe-wrestling, and plotting extraordinary hoaxes and scams. Plus discover urban myths, famous phobias, popular phallacies and extraordinary endurance events.
Find out all about it in this out-of-this-world guide.