Fascinating, bizarre and hilarious facts about the most universal of experiences of life birth, death and matrimony
All the female eggs needed to produce the next generation of the human race could be contained in the shell of one chicken's egg Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' cloakroom Attila the Hun drank himself to death on his wedding night in Tanzanian weddings the bride and groom sit on the lap of an old woman Indian Chief Blackbird was buried sitting on his horse
From Roman births to Bedouin wedding feasts, from the touching tale of the marriage of two white rhinos to the gruesome stories of the final resting places of Oliver Cromwell's head and Gallileo's fingers, Hatches, Matches and Dispatches reveals the true facts of life!