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.
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MORE MUSTARD, PLEASE! Step up to the plate: André Ortolf guzzled nearly 15 ounces of mustard from tubes in one sitting, the most drunk in 30 seconds. Ortolf really loves the condiment—he also holds the record for the fastest time to drink seven ounces of mustard: 12 seconds! LOOONG BIKE Grab your helmet—er, helmets. Engineering students at the University of Adelaide in Adelaide, Australia, built the world’s longest bike, which measures nearly 136 feet in length. That’s approximately twice the length of a bowling lane. Seven riders had to pedal the bike for more than 300 feet without tipping over—on a straight path, of course. Nobody’s making any tight turns on this bike! GINORMOUS HORNS Need something to dry your clothes on? This Texas longhorn has the largest horn spread of any…
SOUTH SUDAN, a new country in AFRICA, issued its FIRST COINS in 2015. SCYPHATES (sy-FATES) were BOWL-SHAPED COINS commonly used in the Byzantine Empire between the 11th and 14th centuries. During a DIVING trip, a Florida family found 300-YEAR-OLD sunken gold coins worth around $1 MILLION. In 2013, a BUS COMPANY in FINLAND let 1,000 customers pay for tickets with GINGERBREAD COOKIES. From 1793 to 1857, the U.S. Mint produced a halfcent, the smallest value coin in American history. An UNFLATTERING PORTRAIT of Holy Roman Emperor LEOPOLD I on a 1670 coin supposedly led to the nickname “LEOPOLD THE HOGMOUTH.” Caesar Augustus—the first emperor of the Roman Empire—owned one of the world’s earliest recorded coin collections. Panama’s currency, THE BALBOA, is named for 16thcentury SPANISH EXPLORER Vasco Núñez de Balboa…
1 The largest snake in the world, the green anaconda, weighs around 550 pounds—more than an adult lion. 2 Estimated at over $300 million, the Bahia Emerald weighs more than 750 pounds and is said to be cursed. 3 Mahana Beach in Hawaii has green sand. 4 Despite its name, about 80 percent of Greenland is covered in ice. 5 During a phenomenon known as the green flash, Earth’s atmosphere scatters light in a way that makes the setting or rising sun briefly appear green. 6 For about 100 years starting in the late 18th century, green dyes and paints were often made with a poison called arsenic. 7 Legend has it that wearing green on St. Patrick’s Day makes you invisible to leprechauns—who like to pinch people they see!…
HOW MANY MOONS? Look up in the night sky and you’ll see our moon. But astronomers have discovered at least 205 moons orbiting planets in our solar system! Get to know them with this moon chart. CHECK OUT THE BOOK!…
Welcome to Otter Island! Singapore It’s hard enough running a marathon. But try running those 26.2 miles while dodging scampering otters in the road. That’s life for the people in Singapore, a country in Southeast Asia, where smooth-coated river otters live alongside humans. About 50 years ago, the rivers on this island were so polluted that these native otters could no longer survive there. But thanks to decades of programs that cleaned up the rivers, the otters have made a comeback in the urban environment. Now biologists are studying the island’s 90 or so otters to learn how the species, found throughout much of Asia, is adapting to city life. For example, these otter pups live with their parents about a year longer than other smooth-coated otters, since they don’t have as…
