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TEAMS OF SOCCER-PLAYING ROBOTS COMPETE ANNUALLY AT THE ROBOCUP. AFGHANISTAN and AZERBAIJAN are the only countries that START but DON’T END WITH an A. ELEPHANTS CAN SWIM FOR UP TO 6 HOURS WITHOUT RESTING. An ear of corn almost always has an even number of rows. WHEN GLASS BREAKS, THE CRACKS MOVE FASTER THAN 3,000 MILES AN HOUR. Sloth bears use their snouts and lips like vacuums, sucking up insects for snacks. DOGS HAVE 3 TIMES MORE TASTE BUDS THAN CATS. You may SPEND HALF your WAKING HOURS DAYDREAMING, according to one study. A BLACK HOLE can weigh as much as 17 BILLION suns. A GROUP OF TURKEYS IS CALLED A GANG. CHECK OUT THIS BOOK!…
MORE MASHED POTATOES, PLEASE! Think he saved room for dessert? André Ortolf holds the record for the most mashed potatoes eaten in one minute, scarfing down more than two pounds of the stuff. (That’s about six typical portions.) But Ortolf isn’t a picky eater—he also holds records for the most jelly eaten with chopsticks and the most baby food eaten in one minute. Someone pass the napkins. LOOONG BEAVER DAM Critters might need a map when entering this dam. Located in Canada’s Wood Buffalo National Park, the longest beaver dam is nearly 3,000 feet long. That’s more than twice the length of the Colorado River’s Hoover Dam located on the Nevada-Arizona border. SUPER-FAST TRASH CAN Quick—catch that … trash can? Andy Jennings holds the record for the fastest trash can,…
MONKEY DOTES ON IGUANA Krefeld‚ Germany This white-faced saki rarely scaled back her affection for her green iguana bestie. The saki, a type of monkey, loved petting and snuggling her reptile pal as they lounged together on tree branches at the Krefeld Zoo. The saki and iguana met after they were placed in the zoo’s Rain Forest House, a tree-filled enclosure that’s home to 40 different types of animals from tropical areas. “Both green iguanas and white-faced sakis spend most of their time in treetops,” zoo spokesperson Petra Schwinn says. “One day these two crossed paths.” The curious saki examined the reptile, patting its skin with her long fingers. The pals continued to have hangout sessions, eating together at the enclosure’s feeding station. But most of their “playdates” were in the trees…
1 Small marsupials called quokkas store enough fat in their tails to survive up to 2 months without food or water. 2 Australia is home to the world’s most venomous snake, the inland taipan. 3 A group of kangaroos is called a mob. 4 A lizard named the thorny devil has a fake “second head” on its neck to scare off predators. 5 Koalas often hug tree trunks to stay cool. 6 The Fitzroy River turtle can breathe underwater through gills on its rump.…
A year on MOUNT EVEREST lasts 15 MICROSECONDS longer than a year at SEA LEVEL. So an astronaut who spends 10 YEARS on the International Space Station will be 0.1 SECONDS YOUNGER when they return. But HIGH UP in space, astronauts AGE MORE SLOWLY than people on Earth. That’s because there’s LESS GRAVITY in space to slow you down. CHECK OUT THE BOOK!…
Comeback Critters: City Seals London, England In the past, the Thames River was basically a sewer where people dumped human, animal, and factory waste. The water was so polluted that in 1957, scientists at the Natural History Museum in London declared parts of the river to be biologically dead. “Fish couldn’t live in large stretches of the river,” marine conservationist Alison Debney says. But some people had hope. Engineers created real sewers for the human waste, and scientists worked with companies to treat their wastewater before it entered the river. And last year, a report from the Zoological Society of London found that the river—which is a mix of freshwater and salt water—is by some measures cleaner than it’s been in 150 years. Today, harbor and gray seals, short-snouted and…
