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CHECK OUT WEIRD BUT TRUE! ON DISNEY+. Outside, you are rarely more than 6 feet away from a SPIDER. GUESTS AT ONE HOTEL IN BERLIN, GERMANY, COULD SLEEP IN COFFINS. A DECAPITATED cockroach head can still WIGGLE its antennae. IN ENGLAND, BLACK CATS ARE CONSIDERED GOOD LUCK. TREATS MIGHT BRING YOU EXTRA LUCK. ODONOPHOBIA is the fear of teeth. In New Zealand, TWO VIALS supposedly holding GHOSTS sold for about $2,000. CERTAIN LIZARDS HAVE GREEN BLOOD. A town in Missouri is called FRANKENSTEIN.…
A stack of 1,000 U.S. BANKNOTES is known as a BRICK. In April 2016, construction workers in Spain uncovered 1,300 pounds of THIRD-CENTURY ROMAN COINS. Like 100 cents equal 1 dollar in the United States, in Malawi money 100 tambala, meaning ”ROOSTER,“ make up 1 kwacha, meaning ”IT HAS DAWNED.” So the roosters announce the dawn! During a 2008 COIN SHORTAGE, some shop owners in BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA, routinely offered CANDY instead of change. GIRAFFE TAIL HAIRS were once used as CURRENCY in parts of AFRICA. In 2015, the Pacific Ocean’s COOK ISLANDS issued a 12-sided 5-dollar coin. Sweden’s 20-krona bill features the children’s book character Pippi Longstocking. SWITZERLAND’S franc banknotes are vertical instead of horizontal. A U.S. dime from 1894 sold at auction for nearly $2 MILLION in January…
GET MORE COOL STUFF IN THE NEW BOOK! FOUNTAIN OF CHOCOLATE Sugar rush! The world’s tallest tower of chocolate soars over 40 feet high in Austria, a country in Europe. The three-story fountain—which was built to celebrate the opening of a local chocolate factory—can support up to 2,200 pounds of cascading liquid chocolate. Quick, someone grab a giant spoon. SO THAT’S WHAT A HUMAN LOOKS LIKE. SUPERSIZE T. REX Sure, most T. rexes are scary … but wait until you meet Scotty. At nearly 43 feet long and weighing almost 20,000 pounds, it’s the largest T. rex skeleton ever found. Even though the dinosaur is only about 65 percent complete, paleontologists can make guesses about the skeleton’s full size based on what they’ve discovered already. However big it was, Scotty’s one…
1 A type of parasitic worm creates “snail zombies” by taking over a snail’s eyestalks. 2 If stretched out, your small intestine would measure about three and a half times the length of your body. 3 One ice-cream company has sold flavors such as fish-sauce caramel, bone marrow and smoked berries, and mint and sea urchin. 4 One ancient Greek philosopher believed that pigeon droppings could cure baldness. 5 A baby koala eats its mom’s liquefied droppings—known as pap—because it can’t yet digest leaves. 6 For centuries, a solid, waxy substance vomited by sperm whales was used to make perfume. 7 A green, spiky fruit called durian is said to smell like a mix of onions, sewage, and burning rubber.…
CHECK OUT THE BOOK! A farmer once grew a pumpkin that weighed 2,323 POUNDS. That’s as heavy as a rhinoceros! Humans have been growing pumpkins for 10,000 YEARS. Pumpkins take 85 to 120 days to grow, depending on the variety. Farmers in the United States grow more than 1.5 BILLION POUNDS of pumpkins every year. Americans may eat some 50 MILLION pumpkin pies every Thanksgiving! Pumpkins are 90 PERCENT water.…
Forget candy. The sweetest part of Halloween is pets in costumes! Millions of pet owners will dress up their best buds this October—including Nat Geo staff members. Check out some of our adorably attired pets in these pics. HEY‚ YOU FORGOT MY EYE PATCH! These pets like wearing costumes, but your pet may not. Never force your pet to do something it doesn’t want to do. OK‚ JUST ONE MORE PICTURE. I’M THE TACO THE TOWN. MAYBE THEY’LL THINK I’M A REAL BEAR! BEST-DRESSED PETS Check out the most popular costumes worn by party animals last Halloween. 1. pumpkin 2. hot dog 3. superhero 4. cat 5. bumblebee 6. ghost 7. dog 8. witch 9. devil 10. bat DRACULA? MORE LIKE CAT-ULA. If you dress up your pet, check that…
