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How big can The Internet and the A red sky at night signals
beaver dams get? 254 World Wide Web are good weather 318
Your irises are as unique as the same thing 292 Lightning can’t strike the
your fingerprints 258 You are caught on camera same place twice 320
300 times a day 294 No two snowflakes
Robots will take over are the same 322
the world 296 The population of the world
COOL SCIENCE 298 can fit into Los Angeles 324
Earth is a perfect sphere 300 DOWN TO EARTH 326
True or false? There is a dark side 302 Marie Antoinette said “Let 328
them eat cake!”
of the Moon
The tongue has The sun is yellow 304 Napoleon was short 330
taste zones 260 Starlight is millions Enemy soldiers played
Head lice like dirty hair 262 of years old 306 soccer in the trenches 332
You catch a cold from Stars in a constellation are Olympic gold medals 334
are solid gold
being cold 264 close together 308
Spinach makes you strong 266 Astronauts would explode Hamburgers were 336
invented in Hamburg
We share 96% of our DNA without space suits 310
with chimps 268 OUT OF THIS WORLD 312 Listening to classical music
makes you smarter 338
Your ears and nose keep Earthquakes are
growing as you age 270 very rare 314 THE REST IS HISTORY 340
Answers 342
BODY TALK 272 It is warm in summer
Mice like cheese 274 because Earth’s orbit is Index 343
closest to the sun 316 Acknowledgments 350
Bees die when they
sting you 276
Goldfish have three-second
memories 278
A cockroach can live for three
days without its head 280
We swallow eight spiders
a year in our sleep 282
A tomato is a fruit 284
Glass is made of sand 286
Penicillin was found
by accident 288
You can’t be in two
places at once 290

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