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A museum in South Korea is designed to look like a toilet bowl. The sunset on Mars appears blue. Pigeons have received medals of honor for military service. Two of George Washington’s library books have been missing for more than 220 years. Alligator teeth are hollow. One type of wildflower smells like chocolate. Kinkajous can twist their hind feet backward to climb trees. Lightning can make the air around it 5 times hotter than the sun’s surface. Watch Fast Facts for even more crazy-fun facts. natgeokids.com/june-july…
SUPERLOUD DOG If you tell Charlie the golden retriever to speak, you’d better cover your ears first. He holds the record for the loudest bark by a dog, at 113.1 decibels. That’s about as loud as a rock concert. Luckily for his owners, Charlie usually doesn’t have a lot to say. REALLY BIG CUP You’d need a giant fan to cool off this huge mug. The largest cup of coffee holds over 6,000 gallons of the bitter beverage, enough to fill nearly 150 bathtubs. We vote for the next cup to hold some hot chocolate instead. TOENAILS OUTGROW SHOES Anyone have a nail file? Louise Hollis’s toenails are the longest on record. At one point, if all 10 were laid end to end they would’ve measured more than seven feet long. Hollis wears…
Some of the oldest piggy banks in the world were made around the 15th century. Ethiopian coins dated 1977 were actually issued in 1984. The country follows a calendar that’s nearly 8 years earlier than Western ones. The small tooth-shaped designs that circle the edges of some coins are called denticles. Belarus issued a 20-ruble collector’s coin with a picture of potato pancakes on one side. A 1,400-year-old coin sold for $5.76 million, one of the most expensive coins ever. Pikachu and other Pokémon characters appear on dollar coins in Niue, an island some 1,500 miles from New Zealand. The Bank of England holds a 100-millionpound note called a titan. U.S. banknotes are printed 4 times: for background images, the back, the front, and serial numbers and seals. Coins issued…
1 Tanzania has the world’s largest population of tree-climbing lions. 2 Thrill-seeking tourists sandboard down giant dunes on many of Africa’s beaches and deserts. 3 Mummified crocodiles have been discovered in ancient Egyptian cemeteries. 4 More than a thousand languages are spoken in Africa. 5 Africa’s Arabian camels have one hump; Bactrian camels in Asia have two. 6 Some scenes in the Star Wars movies were filmed in Tunisia.…
1 FLIPPING OUT Freeride mountain biking sends riders down routes that look impossible to most people. Besides trails, bikers ride on wood planks, platforms, and even off of cliffs! U.S. biker Cameron Zink impressed the crowd at a freeride mountain bike competition in Utah when he completed a 78-foot-long backflip, one of the biggest in history. 2 DEFYING GRAVITY Gymnasts use strength, agility, coordination, and balance to leap and flip in the air. Considered the world’s best gymnast, Simone Biles of the United States (left) won four gold medals and a bronze at the 2016 Olympic Games in Brazil. She even has four original moves named after her. Go, Simone! 3 ALLEYOOP Now here’s a way to guarantee a dunk—trampoline basketball, or basketball with some assists by trampolines. Sometimes going…
Cat Adopts Squirrels! Bakhchysaray, Crimea Pusha the cat definitely has her paws full! On the same day that Pusha gave birth to four kittens, workers at the park where the cat lives found three abandoned squirrel pups in a tree hollow. They knew the young Eurasian red squirrels wouldn’t survive without a mother, so employees placed the pups next to Pusha inside a warm enclosure. “Pusha immediately began licking them like they were her own, and soon the squirrels were drinking her milk,” photographer Alexey Pavlishak says. Cats sometimes care for other baby animals if they already have kittens, cat behavior expert Marilyn Krieger says. “The mom will groom the new babies to put her scent on them, making them part of the family,” she says. Eventually the squirrel pups…
