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Weird But True #7
Weird But True 7: Expanded Edition
Did you know that volcanoes once erupted on the moon, or that a group of sharks is called a shiver? It's all weird ... but true!
The world can be a pretty wacky place! Kids will have a blast exploring just HOW wacky in the 7th book in the wildly popular Weird But True series, full of 350 surprising and amazing facts. Topics include science, space, weather, geography, food, pop culture, and just about everything else under the sun, presented with fascinating photos and illustrations. This quirky little reference is so much fun, kids forget they're learning.
The world can be a pretty wacky place! Kids will have a blast exploring just HOW wacky in the 7th book in the wildly popular Weird But True series, full of 350 surprising and amazing facts. Topics include science, space, weather, geography, food, pop culture, and just about everything else under the sun, presented with fascinating photos and illustrations. This quirky little reference is so much fun, kids forget they're learning.
216 pages, Paperback
First published November 10, 2015
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National Geographic Kids
813 books277 followersWith more than 600 titles—including the popular Weird But True franchise and the New York Times Best Selling National Geographic Kids Almanac—National Geographic Kids Books is the recognized leader in nonfiction for kids. Published in 28 languages, NGK Books reaches approximately 85 million kids every year.
Offering K-12 educators resources that align to and support the Common Core State Standards, National Geographic has a long history of providing high-quality informational texts suitable for primary, upper elementary, and middle school English language arts, social studies, and science classrooms.
Offering K-12 educators resources that align to and support the Common Core State Standards, National Geographic has a long history of providing high-quality informational texts suitable for primary, upper elementary, and middle school English language arts, social studies, and science classrooms.
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November 28, 2021
I like to learn new things even if it’s only little tidbits of random knowledge here and there. Let me share some of the interesting things I learned from this children's book:
Some frogs have green bones.
More American cash is spent outside the United States than inside its borders.
The arches of a McDonald’s in Sedona, Arizona are turquoise instead of yellow.
Albert Einstein’s eyeballs are kept in a safe-deposit box in New York City.
Camels are born without humps.
Grasshopper Glacier in Montana contains layers of grasshoppers preserved in ice.
A group of sharks is called a shiver.
If you also enjoy learning random, obscure facts and perhaps hope to gain the upper hand in trivia games, then you’ll find the interesting and unusual facts collected in this volume to be a fun read.
Some frogs have green bones.
More American cash is spent outside the United States than inside its borders.
The arches of a McDonald’s in Sedona, Arizona are turquoise instead of yellow.
Albert Einstein’s eyeballs are kept in a safe-deposit box in New York City.
Camels are born without humps.
Grasshopper Glacier in Montana contains layers of grasshoppers preserved in ice.
A group of sharks is called a shiver.
If you also enjoy learning random, obscure facts and perhaps hope to gain the upper hand in trivia games, then you’ll find the interesting and unusual facts collected in this volume to be a fun read.
January 22, 2022
Weird but True 7 350 Outrageous Facts is a book of facts many of us have never given a second or even a first thought to such as:
1) Our brain makes up only 2 percent of our total body weight but uses up to 20 percent of our body’s energy.
2) Up to half of the water on earth is older than the Sun.
3) Earwax is a natural antibiotic.
4) We have taste receptors in our stomach.
5) Thousands of bacteria live on just one strain of our hair.
6) The first item sold on eBay was a broken laser pointer.
7) A Cobra bit a chef in China 20 minutes after its head had been cut from its body.
8) On average a $1 bill is in circulation in the United States for about six years.
9) A freshwater lake the size of Lake Ontario is hidden under nearly 2.5 miles of ice in Antarctica.
10) More American cash is just outside the United States than inside its borders.
11) About 30 million adults don’t use the Internet more people than the entire population of Nepal.
12) A group of goats is called a trip.
13) The U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C., has a basketball court on its top floor.
14) Albert Einstein’s eyeballs are kept in a safe deposit box in New York City.
15) As a training tool, the U.S. military created a plan to combat zombies.
16) The first steam locomotive made in the United States lost a race to a horse.
17) The language of the Ewaks in the return of the Jedi is partly based on Tibetan and Nepali.
18) Coffee with cream stays hotter longer than plain black coffee.
19) As a hen gets older she produces bigger eggs.
20) Crocodiles sometimes climb trees.
21) To help prevent drowning, inventors have created a necklace that will inflate if you stay underwater too long.
22) It took the inventor of the Rubik Cube more than a month to solve the puzzle after scrambling it for the first time.
23) Cashew nuts and poison ivy are closely related.
24) Google used a camel with a camera mounted on its hump to help map a desert in the United Arab Emirates.
25) The average person can recognize about a trillion smells.
26) The @ symbol is almost five centuries old.
27) Someone who plays marbles is called a mibsten.
28) Onions and Garlic can be used to help soak up toxic spills.
29) Triskaidekaphobia is the fear of the Number 13.
30) Scientists have figured out a way to convert sugar to fuel.
31) The area of skin between our eyebrows is called glabella.
I truly enjoyed learning about facts I didn’t know or even thought about or even cared about.
The front cover of the book is what caught my eye and make me want to read it. The purity of the color of the pictures inside made them visually pleasing. The illustrator did a great job in his placement of the illustrations. What I especially liked was how the words were laid out within the illustrations. The words were different sizes and different colors and different fonts and designs.
I expected the book to be boring but it wasn’t! National Geographic used color, various font styles, colors and sizes to hold my interest and that made me look forward to turning the page.
1) Our brain makes up only 2 percent of our total body weight but uses up to 20 percent of our body’s energy.
2) Up to half of the water on earth is older than the Sun.
3) Earwax is a natural antibiotic.
4) We have taste receptors in our stomach.
5) Thousands of bacteria live on just one strain of our hair.
6) The first item sold on eBay was a broken laser pointer.
7) A Cobra bit a chef in China 20 minutes after its head had been cut from its body.
8) On average a $1 bill is in circulation in the United States for about six years.
9) A freshwater lake the size of Lake Ontario is hidden under nearly 2.5 miles of ice in Antarctica.
10) More American cash is just outside the United States than inside its borders.
11) About 30 million adults don’t use the Internet more people than the entire population of Nepal.
12) A group of goats is called a trip.
13) The U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C., has a basketball court on its top floor.
14) Albert Einstein’s eyeballs are kept in a safe deposit box in New York City.
15) As a training tool, the U.S. military created a plan to combat zombies.
16) The first steam locomotive made in the United States lost a race to a horse.
17) The language of the Ewaks in the return of the Jedi is partly based on Tibetan and Nepali.
18) Coffee with cream stays hotter longer than plain black coffee.
19) As a hen gets older she produces bigger eggs.
20) Crocodiles sometimes climb trees.
21) To help prevent drowning, inventors have created a necklace that will inflate if you stay underwater too long.
22) It took the inventor of the Rubik Cube more than a month to solve the puzzle after scrambling it for the first time.
23) Cashew nuts and poison ivy are closely related.
24) Google used a camel with a camera mounted on its hump to help map a desert in the United Arab Emirates.
25) The average person can recognize about a trillion smells.
26) The @ symbol is almost five centuries old.
27) Someone who plays marbles is called a mibsten.
28) Onions and Garlic can be used to help soak up toxic spills.
29) Triskaidekaphobia is the fear of the Number 13.
30) Scientists have figured out a way to convert sugar to fuel.
31) The area of skin between our eyebrows is called glabella.
I truly enjoyed learning about facts I didn’t know or even thought about or even cared about.
The front cover of the book is what caught my eye and make me want to read it. The purity of the color of the pictures inside made them visually pleasing. The illustrator did a great job in his placement of the illustrations. What I especially liked was how the words were laid out within the illustrations. The words were different sizes and different colors and different fonts and designs.
I expected the book to be boring but it wasn’t! National Geographic used color, various font styles, colors and sizes to hold my interest and that made me look forward to turning the page.
December 31, 2025
shout out to my friend Quinn for lending me this book during our NYE celebration so I could finish my Goodreads goal for the first time ever 🎉
Some facts were cool and interesting but some were in process or almost certainly not true anymore. Nonetheless all were weird and I hope all were true because I told Quinn them like they were.
Some facts were cool and interesting but some were in process or almost certainly not true anymore. Nonetheless all were weird and I hope all were true because I told Quinn them like they were.
June 23, 2017
This book is short but I think it's worth reading. I learned a lot of cool facts from this book. If you love asking weird, random questions to your friends like me, then this book is for you. It's a really fun book and does not take that long. It is also really appealing to the human, it's colorful and the designs are really cool. There are some greats facts everyone should know that are in this book. For example, you don't sneeze in your sleep and some scientists think that the center o the moon may be squishy.
January 7, 2019
Books such as this one fascinate me! I believe children will love it...and adults who enjoy learning new tidbits will probably like it, too.
July 22, 2019
This is a great series for those who love trivia! Lots of info crammed into a nice compact size. These would be fantastic in waiting rooms, much more fun than old magazines!
February 25, 2023
Fav facts:
Sitting in a cardboard box can lower stress for domestic cats.
A study found that chewing gum puts you in a better mood.
Cockroaches that lived 250 million years ago were as big as today's house cats.
Humans may have once had a third eyelid.
You don't sneeze while you're sleeping.
March 6 is national Oreo day in the United States.
Thousands of bacteria live on just one strand of your hair.
A cobra bit a chef in China 20 minutes after its head had been cut from its body.
When reading, you blink about half as much as usual.
A study found that the longer you sleep, the stranger your dreams become.
Hello Kitty's full name is Kitty White.
Lifting weights may improve your memory.
More American cash is spent outside the United States than inside its borders.
Mexico once had three different presidents in power in one day.
Albert Einstein's eyeballs are kept in a safe-deposit box in New York City.
Shoppers are more likely to buy a product if they touch it, a study found.
One type of owl in Australia barks like a dog.
In Churchill, Canada, there is a jail for polar bears.
A study found that saying "ow" can help you tolerate pain better.
One artist painted a picture of basketball player Yao Ming, using a basketball as a paintbrush.
Triskaidekaphobia is the fear of the number 13.
In some large U.S. cities, more than $2 million worth of gold and silver ends up in the sewer systems each year.
oki bye now
Sitting in a cardboard box can lower stress for domestic cats.
A study found that chewing gum puts you in a better mood.
Cockroaches that lived 250 million years ago were as big as today's house cats.
Humans may have once had a third eyelid.
You don't sneeze while you're sleeping.
March 6 is national Oreo day in the United States.
Thousands of bacteria live on just one strand of your hair.
A cobra bit a chef in China 20 minutes after its head had been cut from its body.
When reading, you blink about half as much as usual.
A study found that the longer you sleep, the stranger your dreams become.
Hello Kitty's full name is Kitty White.
Lifting weights may improve your memory.
More American cash is spent outside the United States than inside its borders.
Mexico once had three different presidents in power in one day.
Albert Einstein's eyeballs are kept in a safe-deposit box in New York City.
Shoppers are more likely to buy a product if they touch it, a study found.
One type of owl in Australia barks like a dog.
In Churchill, Canada, there is a jail for polar bears.
A study found that saying "ow" can help you tolerate pain better.
One artist painted a picture of basketball player Yao Ming, using a basketball as a paintbrush.
Triskaidekaphobia is the fear of the number 13.
In some large U.S. cities, more than $2 million worth of gold and silver ends up in the sewer systems each year.
oki bye now
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January 7, 2020Weird but true 7
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I give this book a 3-star rating because I really liked most of the facts but some I felt some of them were either fake or they were just boring. But overall I think it was a decent book.
This was a very good book. It included tons of facts and was extremely interesting to read. Some of the facts listed where that “On average the Empire State Building in New York City is hit by lightning 25 times a year.” And did you know that “some frogs have green bones.” Well after reading this book you will know lots of amazing new facts. I recommend this book for anybody because anyone can learn something new. This book has no theme.
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I give this book a 3-star rating because I really liked most of the facts but some I felt some of them were either fake or they were just boring. But overall I think it was a decent book.
This was a very good book. It included tons of facts and was extremely interesting to read. Some of the facts listed where that “On average the Empire State Building in New York City is hit by lightning 25 times a year.” And did you know that “some frogs have green bones.” Well after reading this book you will know lots of amazing new facts. I recommend this book for anybody because anyone can learn something new. This book has no theme.
February 8, 2021
National Geographic's Weird But True is a collection of fun facts compromised in a single pocket-sized book. This book also contains fun and colorful graphics that go along with each fact. The series comprises 12 books, which contain over 1000 crazy facts. Although a great read, today's generation of 6 to 8-year-olds may find these books irrelevant because these facts are easily found with a click of a button. There are thousands of websites where fun facts are posted for free. Although it might be cool to know that “a group of giraffes is called a tower” there is no need to pay 7 dollars for something you could get for free.
- Kiran Thomman, 10th grade
- Kiran Thomman, 10th grade
July 6, 2025
Reading and relating this collection of random facts will surely impress your friends. A penny issued by the U.S. mint in 1793 sold for 2.3 million. Better start saving pennies now and willing them to future generations! And on average, a $1 bill is in circulation in the United States for about six years. Pennies do last longer, but they are harder to carry around. Though intended for children with its full-color illustrations, this book will appeal to all ages, proving it is fun to learn new things.
September 14, 2018
I think that this book was really interesting because because it has some facts in there that you almost can’t believe. Some of them are really funny and gross but over all I think that adding a little more detail and facts about why some of the things are like that. For example, why do frogs have green bones or why a certain ice cream turns into a different flavor when you like it etc. Overall I think that the book and its really mind blowing facts were pretty realistic?
May 27, 2020
Love these books! There so much fun! Great illustrations and fascinating facts.
*Your brain makes up only 2 percent on your total body weight but uses up to 20% of your body's energy.
*One study found the longer you sleep the stranger your dreams become.
*The first steam locomotive made in the US lost a race to a horse.
*One volcano in Indonesia burns with electric-blue flames.
*About one-quarter of the world's hazelnut supply is used in Nutella.
*Your brain makes up only 2 percent on your total body weight but uses up to 20% of your body's energy.
*One study found the longer you sleep the stranger your dreams become.
*The first steam locomotive made in the US lost a race to a horse.
*One volcano in Indonesia burns with electric-blue flames.
*About one-quarter of the world's hazelnut supply is used in Nutella.
April 5, 2019
Maidie: I like the facts. They’re interesting and give you knowledge. I like to say triskaidekaphobia. It’s fun to say, and it’s weird that people have a fear of the number 13. Not Maidie: triskaidekaphobia has been my favorite word for years. Maidie is right... it’s fun to say!
December 8, 2021
My son and love learning little tidbits of information through these "Weird but True" books. Some facts make us laugh, others make us gag, and yet others make us say, "Wow!" Fun, interesting and beautiful display of pictures throughout the book.
January 30, 2019
This book is full of fun facts.
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February 19, 2020i don't likt this
March 8, 2021
If you like a book of facts, this is your thing! I read it out loud to my 9 year old and she was quite impressed!
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October 25, 2021
Super cute book very interesting facts
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January 18, 2016
If you are searching for a perfect book to encourage young persons to start reading – this is great choice.
Packed with facts, but written in a manner the school children will "fall in love with the first sight", “Weird but True” series are full of interesting content and latest discoveries, accurate and verified, yet looking cool and beautifully designed with accompanying photos.
Overall, my kids love it from the very first volume and with seventh installment their joy did not decrease, quite the opposite seems to be a best ever issued.
Packed with facts, but written in a manner the school children will "fall in love with the first sight", “Weird but True” series are full of interesting content and latest discoveries, accurate and verified, yet looking cool and beautifully designed with accompanying photos.
Overall, my kids love it from the very first volume and with seventh installment their joy did not decrease, quite the opposite seems to be a best ever issued.
September 7, 2016
weird? this one is not so weird. but if you get weird but true gross than that is weird.
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September 22, 2016This book by National Geographic Kids is a cool, and interesting book. It has lots of very cool facts. I would recommend this book to most people, unless they don't like weird things.
March 27, 2017
This book by National Geographic Kids is a cool, and interesting book. It has lots of very cool facts. I would recommend this book to most people, unless they don't like weird things.
April 25, 2016
Nice book of weird but true facts for children!
October 29, 2018
interesting
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