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All aboard Guinness World Records 2021 for a life-changing journey of discovery! This year, we're devoting a chapter to the history of exploration, starting with the story of the very first circumnavigation, along with our History of Adventure timeline, featuring a host of remarkable achievements. The fully revised and updated best-seller is packed with thousands of incredible new feats across the widest spectrum of topics, providing a whistle-stop...
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They don't call him Stink for nothing! Now kids can savor a smorgasbord of facts about smelly and vile stuff in honor of their favorite super sniffer. Did you know that a group of skunks is called a stench? (No lie!) Can you believe that in colonial days, window-washing rags were dipped in pee? Or that snail slime was once an ingredient in cough syrup? Stink has a nose for yuck and muck, and this book is full of it: moose poop festivals, mouse
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Briefly describes various world records as recorded and uploaded on the platform YouTube and features photographs and QR codes that allow readers to see the videos. Includes such records as the largest rabbit to the world's tallest water slide to the most-watched movie trailer.
14) Fantastic feats
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Presents basic facts about fantastic feats, followed by "Feat of Endurance" a fiction story about people who will do anything just to become famous.
16) U.S. Presidents
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"What's so weird about U.S. presidents? Plenty! Did you know that Abraham Lincoln was a great wrestler? That Ulysses S. Grant got a speeding ticket riding his horse--twice! Or that Benjamin Harrison was afraid of electricity? And let's not forget that President McKinley had a pet parrot that whistled 'Yankee Doodle Dandy' duets with him! In this new single-subject Weird But True book, you'll have a blast learning that there's a lot of substance--and...
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"...features tons of tidbits on toys and games, mysteries of history, robots and reptiles, sports and spies, wacky words, ans so much more! Ever wonder how much a tiger eats? Why giraffes have blue tongues? How many licks it takes to reach the center of a Tootsie Pop?"--P. [4] of cover.
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The history of the world is full of unusual events. History Mysteries Revealed gives the answers to such questions as why did the people of Easter Island compete in a deadly race for birds' eggs; were Neanderthal people the same as you and me; why did the Chinese build such a huge wall; did Vikings really have horns on their helmets, and was the Egyptian queen Cleopatra really Greek?
20) Go, go America
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A collection of odd facts, including festivals, contests, and laws,about the states of the United States.