National Geographic Kids magazine - the perfect balance between learning and fun! A must-have for children ages 6 and up. Each issue is packed with colorful photos, games, puzzles, fun features and facts about animals, science, technology, and more.
The record for omelet flipping is 117 flips in 1 minute. Some butterflies’ EARS are on their WINGS. BATS HAVE THUMBS. YOU BREATHE IN 2,000 GALLONS OF AIR A DAY. ELEPHANT SEALS can dive DEEPER than most submarines. A HIGHWAY RUNS THROUGH THE MIDDLE OF AN OFFICE BUILDING IN OSAKA, JAPAN. Popcorn can pop up 3 feet to into the air. The prototype of the original , DOLL I. JOE ,000, Gworth $.200 is the most expensive toy soldier ever. A camel can drink 500 CUPS of water in 10 MINUTES. CHECK OUT THE BOOK AND APP!…
RATTLERS in MOUTH! What’s more dangerous than a rattlesnake? Eleven rattlesnakes—in your mouth! Jackie Bibby of Rising Star, Texas, holds the record for the most rattlesnakes in the mouth without assistance. To set the record, Bibby put the snakes in his mouth a few at a time, then held them for 10 seconds. Crazy? Maybe. But he says the key is to stay as still as possible, even when things get tricky. “Once I was in a sleeping bag with a lot of rattlesnakes,” he says. “One of them crawled up my leg, and my assistant had to cut open my pants to get it out!” HUGE JEANS Hope these massive jeans have a sturdy belt that will hold them up. Measuring 164 feet long, the largest jeans on record…
THE FORMER FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA ONCE ISSUED A 500-BILLION DINAR NOTE— THAT’S 11 ZEROS! BENJAMIN FRANKLIN’S OWN PRINTING COMPANY printed currency for three American colonies: Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware. IN RUSSIA, THE WORD FOR CABBAGE— KAPUSTA—IS SLANG FOR MONEY. ANCIENT AZTECS USED COCOA BEANS FOR CURRENCY. During World War II, Canada minted a “VICTORY NICKEL” with the Morse code message “We win when we work willingly.” IT TAKES U.S. BILLS TO EQUAL ONE POUND. SIR EDMUND HILLARY— THE FIRST EXPLORER TO SUMMIT MOUNT EVEREST—APPEARS ON THE FIVE-DOLLAR NOTE IN HIS NATIVE NEW ZEALAND. THE PACIFIC ISLAND OF PALAU ISSUED A SILVER COIN THAT SMELLS LIKE OCEAN BREEZES. In China and Vietnam, people burn fake moneycalled “ghost money”— to honor their ancestors. MONEY TIP! WANT…
1 The sun has enough energy to burn for 100 billion more years. 2 A camel doesn’t until its body temperature reaches 106˚F. 3 Pigs can sunburned. 4 Venus is the hottest planet in our solar system 5 Lightning hits the United States about 25 million times a year. 6 Hot Coffee is the name of a town in Mississippi. 7 The hottest stars are BLUE. 8 A baseball will travel farther in hot weather than in cold weather. CHECK OUT THE BOOK!…
Elephant Swipes Snacks West Bengal, India An elephant never forgets ... where to get a snack! A wild Asian elephant stopped traffic when it emerged from its forest home, walked up to a truck, and used its trunk to lift the truck’s covering.Score! The mischievous mammal knocked about a dozen potatoes to the ground. “Elephants are very clever,” elephant expert Raman Sukumar says.“They figure out how to solve problems, like finding food.” And drivers might have accidentally helped. Bags of vegetables or sugarcane can sometimes fall off the trucks as they’re moving through elephant habitat. Sukumar says the pachyderms might be associating the trucks with food. So when they hear the trucks rumbling, the elephants come tumbling! Although people tried to move the elephant off the road, the stubborn creature…
Abottlenose dolphin flips its tail as it swims with its dolphin friends. A baby chimpanzee watches closely as its mom shows it how to crack a nut. A male wolf howls to gather the pack for a hunt. Playing, teaching, and working together are known as “social skills.” Humans, of course, are social animals. So are bottlenose dolphins, chimps, and wolves. And according to scientists, it’s time to move one animal higher up the list: orcas! Orcas are dolphins, so scientists have known about some social behavior. “We knew orcas travel in pods,” says biologist Janice Waite of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. But new research shows that the school-bussize swimmers have more complex social behaviors than previously understood. Could orcas be among the most social animals of all?…
