What a fun book to read! Man! You see the coolest things world-wide in great photographs and learn so many interesting facts you could host your own Trivia Night. Excellent stuff here any one young, teen, adult, senikor all will love what you find here. And this is 3, I have got to read the first 2 and are there more? I’m totally hooked. What a great book, seriously. There is this amazing 49 foot tall Mother Nature living sculpture in Montreal Canada that looks like the dear lady could rise up and walk. Gorgeous, complete with 13 foot waterfall cascading from her right hand. There are glass frogs with green bones that are see-through as well as several other “glass” creatures shown here. Who knew John Quincy Adams had a pet alligator? Or that the Obamas keep bees (70,000 when this book went to press). You may have heard the Eiffel Tower gets struck by lightning about 30 times a year but did you know there are lightning rods fitted to its top. Metal cables conduct the lightning strikes powerful charge deep into the ground where the earth which is a poor conductor makes the charge and the heat harmless. Whew! Merci, mon Dieu! We knew owls can swivel their heads but did we know they can do it to 270 degrees because they have specially adapted bones and blood vessels? Hmmm? Or that a platypus (the plural is platypodes – who knew, right?) closes its eyes and ears when it swims and picks up electrical impulses from its prey in the water that guides it right to its dinner? I know! Don’t you love this stuff? Me, too! The Dragon Bridge in Da Nangm, Vietnam actually breathes real fire from its mouth! Cool, huh? The Moses Bridge in Fort de Roovere, the Netherlands is built in such a way that goes below the water level (but the people stay dry) and the water is right there on either side giving the visual effect that the people crossing are experiencing a parting of the water (hence Moses). That would be pretty freaky. I would be hoping that the water on either side wasn’t very deep just in case it started spilling over. But hey, it does look really cool. There are 10 times more bacterial cells than human cells in our bodies – 500 different kinds of bacteria live in our mouths alone! But most of the bacteria we carry around (the freeloaders!) is good for us so it’s not all bad. A farmer in England bit a bi furry car in the shape of a sheep herding dog that is not street legal but he actually uses it to herd his sheep it looks like “MOM” from the film, “Babe.” I love this book!
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