National Geographic Kids Weird But True! 6: 300 Outrageous Facts

National Geographic Kids Weird But True!  6: 300 Outrageous Facts        Paperback: 206 pages

I am so addicted to these books.   So fun and so enlightening.   You learn so many things about a myriad of topics.    I picture Mr. Spock saying, “Fascinating.”   And he would be correct.   Just some of the stuff you will learn in this book are: the people who performed the voices of Mickey and Minnie Mouse were married in real life, sunlight reflected off a building in London, England melted a nearby car, more than half of the world’s geysers are in Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming,  Nasa is developing a 3-D printer that it hopes will “print” edible pizza (will it taste like paper?) , some catfish leap out of the water to catch pigeons on the shore, people throw away enough ribbon each year to tie a bow around the entire earth,  Americans eat over a billion chicken wings during Super Bowl weekend,  there is a town in Canada called Saint Louis Du Ha Ha!    Loads of great info here.   New Zealand has more cats per person than any other country in the world,  Capuchin Monkeys greet each other by sticking their fingers up each other’s nose – yikes!  That could be painful I would think.   A designer created a glow-in-the-dark wedding dress (great for a romantic turn down the lights dance with the groom or to brighten up the bride and her father dance), an ice-cream truck in London served scoops just for dogs- cute picture, too,  it’s impossible to hum while holding your nose (yeah I tried it too- they are right) ,  a palm tree is not a tree it is a type of grass,  an elephant’s skin is as thick as 12 stacked pennies and a human’s is as thick as 15 sheets of paper.    The White House was originally called the President’s Palace, Amazon was originally called “Cadabra,” the blue whale – the largest animal on earth – can’t swallow anything bigger than a beach ball (they must have to chew everything at least 20 times to get it small enough to swallow must be tough with seals), nearly half of the world’s land is still wilderness – yippee! We need to keep some wilderness, a study found that choir members’ heartbeats sync when they sing together, cats and dogs can get sunburned – I did not know that.      So much good stuff here.    It will keep you amused from 1st page to the last one.   Excellent book series.