Totally random questions 101 outlandish and amazing Q & As Volume 8 :
"This book has the answer! Packed with surprising facts and colorful photos, Totally Random Questions, Volume 8 presents snack-sized answers to a series of wacky, weird, but always amazing questions about our wonderfully wild world! Kids will love testing their knowledge and stumping their friends w...
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[2022]
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Table of Contents:
- True or False: Adults replace their skeleton every 10 years. 9
- What is Baby Yingliang? 11
- Why doesn't gum dissolve? 13
- True or False: AH birds have the same number of feathers. 15
- What gives Mosquito Bay its blue light? 17
- Why was the internet invented? 19
- True or False: Sharkskin is always smooth. 21
- How many breaths do you take each day? 23
- How long is a day on Pluto? 25
- How big was the world's large arthropod? 27
- Why do cats chirp when they look out the window? 29
- True or False: Some dogs can detect cancer. 31
- How long does it take plastic to breakdown in the ocean? 33
- True or False: Serena Williams bounces a tennis bail five times before each first serve. 35
- How do some Japanese water beetles survive being swallowed by a frog? 37
- What is the terminator line? 39
- True or False: All of your fingers have three joints. 41
- What are your chances of finding a four-leaf clover? 43
- True or False: Spiders are insects. 45
- What did Sir Isaac Newton discover? 47
- Which country makes most of the world's robots? 49
- True or False: Your skin is mostly water. 51
- Do pumpkins sink or float? 53
- Which animal travels the farthest? 55
- True or False: Ail ancient Egyptians were mummified. 57
- How big is a cat's brain? 59
- About how many Earths could fit in the sun? 61
- Where can you see pink dolphins? 63
- Which baseball player has hit the most home runs? 65
- True or False: The computer Alexa stores everything you ever tell it. 67
- What are fossils made of? 69
- How long can the gastrointestinal tract be? 71
- True or False: Driving at high speed, it would take about two months to circle Saturn's rings. 73
- How did Susan EL Anthony change women's rights? 75
- How big is the eye of a hurricane? 77
- True or False: Beaver urine is sometimes used in vanilla flavoring. 79
- Which U.S. city has the largest surface area? 81
- What is the sound that you hear when you crack your knuckles? 83
- Which big cat is the rarest? 85
- True or False: Dogs have baby teeth. 87
- True or False: A day on Mars is shorter than a day on Earth. 89
- Which vertebrate Is the most toxic? 91
- In which year did women start participating in the Olympic Games? 93
- True or False: Your heart cannot beat unless it's inside your body. 95
- What kind of business did Nintendo start as? 97
- What are baby rabbits called? 99
- True or False: Chinese New Year is always in March. 101
- What was George Washington Carver's claim to fame? 103
- True or False: Houseflies can find sugar with their feet. 105
- What did the Richter scale measure? 107
- What historical document led people in the United States to celebrate the Fourth of July? 109
- True or False: Earth's moon once had water. 111
- How quickly can your brain identify an image? 113
- Which animal is an ungulate? 115
- True or False: Female cats are usually "left-handed." 117
- About how many atoms are in the human body? 119
- True or False: The world's first photo was taken by the sun. 121
- Which sea turtle has a soft shelf? 123
- True or False: Earth is the only planet in our solar system not named after an ancient god. 125
- Why are basketballs orange? 127
- What do bottlenose dolphins do to track prey? 129
- In Mexico, who is celebrated during Day of the Dead? 131
- How many light-years would it take to cross the Milky Way galaxy? 133
- True or False: Bones weigh more than muscles. 135
- How do insects breathe? 137
- Is 0 an odd or even number? 139
- True or False: Helen Keller never went to college. 141
- Roughly how many people apply to be astronauts during each recruiting cycle? 143
- Which animal is the most successful hunter? 145
- True or False: Break dancing is an Olympic sport. 147
- How much of the universe is visible from Earth? 149
- How fast do nerve impulses travel to and from the brain? 151
- True or False: There are about 50 million birds on the planet. 153
- Why do dogs smell each other's rear ends? 155
- If a person weighed 110 pounds (50 kg) on Earth, how much would they weigh on Mars? 157
- What can cause a tsunami? 159
- True or False: Some spiders have 12 eyes. 161
- What is a zarf? 163
- Which animal has the most muscles in its face? 165
- Who was the first self-made female millionaire? 167
- True or False: Cats can see more colors than humans do. 169
- How are galaxies categorized? 171
- True or False: Ancient Greeks thought animals could predict earthquakes. 173
- What makes up the crust of Europe, one of Jupiter's moons? 175
- You blink less when reading from which surface? 177
- What is the foggiest place on Earth? 179
- How are belugas different from other whales? 181
- True or False: George Washington led the charge to make Thanksgiving a national holiday. 183
- In what year did the first sports team visit the White House? 185
- What does the word sushi mean in Japanese? 187
- True or False: Most dogs and cats chew grass to make themselves vomit. 189
- True or False: Ostriches have teeth. 191
- What machine is most like the human heart? 193
- Who was the Taung child? 195
- What is El Niño? 197
- True or False: All planets in our solar system have moons. 199
- In six years, how many kittens can descend from a single house cat? 201
- Where were the world's oldest known snakes found? 203
- True or False: Most animals have folds in their brains. 205
- First smartphone was released in which year? 207
- What's the largest carnivore on land? 209.
