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SMELLING good scents while SLEEPING might give you HAPPY DREAMS. Some MONKEYS in THAILAND TEACH their young to FLOSS. There are SOLID GOLD pizza-size Canadian coins worth ONE MILLION Canadian dollars. A BEAVER has a SET OF LIPS behind its FRONT TEETH. AN EARTHQUAKE in CHILE shortened the length of an Earth day by 1.26 MICROSECONDS. Some ARTISTS use CHEWING GUM to make PAINTINGS. The SOUND of waves CRASHING comes mostly from AIR BUBBLES. APPLES FLOAT, but PEARS TYPICALLY SINK. A SAILFISH can LEAP through the air at 68miles an hour. CHECK OUT THE BOOK!…
BRILLIANT BUNNY Taawi the bunny really jumped into the record books. He completed 20 stunts in a row, the most tricks performed by a rabbit in one minute. The showstoppers included jumping over an obstacle (left), high-fiving his owner, and pulling a card from his owner’s hand with his teeth. What’s next, playing hop-scotch? TREMENDOUS T-SHIRT Water bottles went from plastic to pullover to create the world’s largest T-shirt. Bigger than a football field, the shirt was made from 500,000 bottles that were recycled into cloth. Then for a month, volunteers stitched the T-shirt together. Organizers plan to make 12,000 normal-size shirts out of the record holder for people in need. That’s the kind of fashion trend we can really buy into. HIGH-RISE HOUSE OF CARDS This house is all decked out … with…
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1 Sloths and armadillos see in black-and-white. 2 A scallop has up to 200 tiny eyes under the edge of its shell. 3 A cat’s glowy eyes reflect light to help it see better in the dark. 4 Fan worms have eyes on their tentacles to detect motion from nearby predators. 5 An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain. 6 Human eyes move about 14,400 times during an hour of reading.…
1 HAIRY SITUATION Sundew attracts, traps, and digests its prey with sticky goop secreted by glands at the end of its long tentacles. A stuck insect is doomed within minutes, but the hairy-looking carnivorous plant can take up to a few weeks to digest it. 2 TOWERING STINK True to its nickname, the “corpse flower” emits a smell like rotting flesh that helps attract pollinators—like dung and carrion beetles. In its native tropical rainforest habitat, titan arum can grow to be 12 feet tall and weigh as much as 170 pounds. 3 CAT PLUS BAT The black bat flower earned its creepy common name because of its bat-shaped purplish black flowers. Native to Southeast Asia, this plant—sometimes called devil flower—sports long, catlike “whiskers” that drop down from the flower. 4 GROSS…
Turtle Walks With Wheels Baltimore, Maryland When a wild eastern box turtle arrived at the Maryland Zoo with a broken bottom shell, caretakers wondered how to help. The vets could fix the fracture, but how would they keep the shell off the ground to heal? That’s when a vet student had an idea: a wheelchair made of Lego pieces. He sent sketches to a Lego-loving friend, and the two created a design. After the vets performed surgery on the turtle, the zoo’s medical team used putty to attach the DIY wheelchair to the edges of the turtle’s top shell. “The minute we put the chair on, the turtle took off,” lead veterinarian Ellen Bronson says. “You could tell it was feeling better.” The turtle rested in an outdoor enclosure until its…
