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CHECK OUT WEIRD BUT TRUE! ON DISNEY+. THE AVERAGE HUG LATS 3 SECONDS LILY PADS CAN GROW TO BE WIDER THAN A KING-SIZE BED. THE SYMBOL &, WHICH MEANS “AND,” WAS ONCE A LETTER IN THE ENGLISH ALPHABET. Newborn PYGMY MARMOSETS are the size of a human finger. The planet URANUS was almost named GEORGE.…
ONEHANDED BACKFLIPS! Not many people can perform multiple back handsprings. But this man can complete 36 of them—using just one hand. Zama Mofokeng holds the record for most consecutive back handsprings on one hand. He also holds records for back handsprings with alternating hands and interlocked hands. Makes sense—Mofokeng’s been practicing gymnastics since he was 10 years old. EXTRA-LARGE LILY PADS Some water lilies look delicate—but not these jumbo plants. With pads measuring up to 10 feet wide, giant water lilies hold the record for the largest water lily. (There are some 70 species of these plants.) They’re so massive, a 10-year-old kid could sit comfortably on one! Underwater stalks extending up to 30 feet long hold these flowering plants in place. BEWARE OF BIRD Did somebody say “yikes”? The cassowary, a bird native…
1 Some scientists think that African elephants might hear storms up to 150 miles away. 2 A cricket’s ears are on its knees. 3 A barn owl’s flat face helps it capture sounds, almost like a satellite dish. 4 A basset hound’s long, floppy ears help bring scents to its nose. 5 Seals can close their ear openings when diving underwater. 6 A snake “hears” through its jawbone, which sends vibrations from the ground to its inner ear.…
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1 NO STRINGS ATTACHED A music-lover brought harmony to his home with the design for this violin-shaped pool in his backyard. At night, 5,600 fiberoptic cables light up multicolored “strings” timed to the music’s beat. A hot tub serves as the violin’s chin rest, and the bow is actually two narrow fish ponds. Bravo! 2 FLOAT YOUR BOAT Here’s one way to breathe new life into an old barge: Turn it into a pool! This popular spot floats on the Spree River in Berlin, Germany, with a wooden footbridge that allows easy access from the riverbank. 3 OVER THE EDGE The pool at the Joule Hotel in Dallas, Texas, really leaves it all hanging out there—eight feet out there, to be exact. One side of the special swimming spot juts out from…
Serengeti National Park, Tanzania A pair of tiny black ears peeked through the tall savanna grass. Suddenly the kitten—an unusual all-black serval—leaped onto a boulder before rolling off to play with its spotted sibling. The dark, solid color surprised photographer Will Burrard-Lucas, who’d come to this spot to snap pics of lions. “You have to be pretty lucky to see any servals in the wild, much less a black one,” he says. Servals are wild cats with big ears, long legs, and spotted fur—usually. But this kitten has a rare quality called melanism(pronounced MEL-uh-nihzum), in which the animal’s body makes only black fur pigment. “Servals hunt rodents at night, so the black fur might make it a better hunter,” says Leslie A. Lyons, an expert who studies feline coat color.…
