National Geographic Kids Weird But True! 8:

National Geographic Kids Weird But True!  8: 300 Outrageous Facts                    Paperback:  206 pages             

I love these books.   I have learned so many new things and started so many conversations lately sharing some of what I have learned.   Some people do not believe such fantastic claims as these but Google will always back them up with the in-depth research that supports them.    These books truly are amazing and chock full of so many new wonders to behold.   I love it!    Here is just a taste of the gems that are to be found within these pages:  A compound in human spit can help heal wounds (as children we instinctively knew this when getting a cut on our hands we automatically put it to our mouths),  the planet Mercury is shrinking,  a waterfall in Minnesota drops into a deep hole and disappears and no one knows where the water goes,  a giant black hole ate a star and burped out a flame, lightening strikes men more often than women (see that not wanting to get your hair wet thing pays off), you are made of stardust – true we are made up of carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, Sulphur, oxygen etc. that is found throughout the galaxy, the song was right, “…You are stardust, you are golden…” there is also a percentage of gold in our systems – wow!  We are all the golden child!), a brown bat can eat 1,000 mosquitoes in an hour – hmmm, I need to put some bat houses up in my backyard.     One rare plant grows only on top of diamond deposits – let’s all look that one up!     Famous horror film director, Alfred Hitchcock was afraid of eggs (don’t judge), guess he was too afraid of them to put that in a film, there is a rock on Mars that looks like a floating spoon –photo in the book, a Librocubicularist is someone who reads in bed, there is a body of water floating in outer space that is 140 trillion times bigger than all the Earth’s oceans combined – gotta check that out – whoa!   During Olympic training swimmer Michael Phelps consumed more than 12,000 calories a day – about the equivalent of 80 cups of whole milk (its called “the Munchies”), King Henry III had a pet bear that swam in the Thames and caught fish and too much oxygen can make you sick – who knew?  Oh and that groove between your top lip and your nose is called your philtrum.    How can you not like these books, they are GREAT!