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Weird but True! 5

300 Outrageous Facts. --
Mar 20, 2014
The fifth installment in National Geographic’s 300 Outrageous Facts series is just as engrossing as the previous books. Did you know that we can smell scents better through our right nostril than our left, that a tyrannosaurus’s arms were so short that it couldn’t scratch its own nose, that some goats can climb trees, and that roasted ants are a popular snack in Columbia? Here’s more: the world’s biggest skateboard is almost as long as a school bus, hot water can freeze faster than cold water, and a man once blew a bubble gum bubble that was larger than a basketball. Aha! Young readers will also be intrigued by an octopus’s unusual ability to detach one of its own arms on purpose and then regrow it … and by the many other quirky, fun (and entirely age-appropriate) facts selected for this book. With its many eye-catching graphics, uncluttered layout and large print font, this “fast read” will appeal even to reluctant readers. Like the other books in the series, it can be read over and over again.