National Geographic Kids Weird But True! 7

National Geographic Kids Weird But True!  7: 300 Outrageous Facts             Paperback Book:  206 pages               

Loving this series – seriously – and I am spreading the word on what great books these are.     Just a few of the fun things you will learn here:  Sitting in a box can lower stress for domestic cats – I can attest to this one – if one of my cats gets stressed they always seek out a box to go get in,   chewing gum puts you in a better mood, gotta remember to keep lots of gum in the candy bowl, special vending machines in Istanbul, Turkey automatically dispense food and water for dogs – how nice and thoughtful is that?   Cockroaches that lived 250 million years ago were as big as today’s house cats – geez!  And I cringe if I see the tiny ones and let’s not talk about the one’s outside at night THAT CAN FLY!    A hexagon shaped  hurricane has hovered over Saturn’s North Pole for at least 30 years, volcanoes once erupted on the moon, flashes of light sometimes appear in the sky before and during earthquakes – never heard that before – researching it.    A group of goats is called a trip and with those horizontal pupils it looks like they are tripping.   Some police cars in Dubai, United Arab Emirates,  can go more than 220 miles an hour must be for chaising those naughty folk in the desert downtown Dubai looks like Vegas from the photos, its impossible for a bat to stand upright, as a training tool, the U.S. military created a plan to combat zombies, hey fellas, save some dough and just have them come out on an episode of the Walking Dead win win for the military – win win for the show’s ratings and budget!   Some 20 billion planets in our galaxy could support alien life, every day, 100 tons of cosmic dust from space enters Earth’s atmosphere-that’s the same weight as 400 mountain gorillas, herds of buffalo-size rodents once roamed South America – hey, a capybara today can weigh up to 146lbs!    Until the mid 19^th century cucumbers were known as cowcumbers (that makes me laugh thinking about someone like the guy asking for grey poupon mustard saying, “Would you please pass the cowcumbers?)    Coffee with cream stays hot longer than black coffee, as a hen gets older she produces bigger eggs (like Mark Twain said, it’s not the size of the dog in the fight it’s the size of the fight in the dog!),  crocodiles sometimes climb trees – WHAT?   O.K. rule that escape plan out,  Pippi Longstocking’s full name is:  Pippilotta Delicatessa Windowshade Mackrelmint Ephraim’s Daughter Longstocking.    Curious George’s name was originally Fifi (all are welcome here),  the Eiffel Tower grows about 6 inches taller in Summer when the heat makes its iron expand, a group of sharks is called a shiver – yeah, no kidding!   A warm golf ball will travel farther through the air than a cold one – guys I’m just saying and leaving that alone…