Another equally great book of weird and fun facts to learn like: Deep Fried Kool-Aid is served at a County Fair in California, more earthquakes occur in Alaska than in any other U.S. state (that surprised me), the first stop signs were black and white (today those would so blend into the scenery I bet most all of us would be blowing through them), some chickens are born half-male and half female ( I don’t know – lays eggs but has a comb on its head or what? – more research), a group of owls is called a parliament (got the visual on the olde English House of Commons but I think today they don’t have to wear the wigs anymore), there are about 3lbs. of bacteria living in our mouths – sounds awfully heavy to be carrying around, chalk is made from the skeletons of ancient sea creatures-must be where diatomaceous earth comes from, bat’s knees face backwards – I’ve got to check that one out, Afghanistan and Azerbaijan are the only countries that begin but don’t end with the letter A, Tasmanian devils sometimes sneeze to challenge other devils to a fight – hey don’t let him fake you out he is sick with a cold! One spider species spins a silk bubble around itself so it can breath under water – clever spider! Barbie (the famous doll) has a first, middle and last name, it is Barbara Millicent Roberts – great trivia, that, more people live in the Tokyo, Japan metro area than in all of Canada (that is news to me, too and kind of staggering when you think about it), Istanbul, Turker is located on two continents: Europe and Asia. Man, the knowledge in these books is unbelievable. Why isn’t everyone reading them?
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