My Aunt who lives in Austria has subscribed for National Geographic Kids magazine for me about 5 years ago. Ever since, I would receive Nat Geo Kids magazines monthly although it only lasted for about 3 years. I collected them and now, I already have more or less 60 magazines. These magazines have been very useful and entertaining. They provide a lot of new information about animals, us humans, and many more! My favorite section in every magazine is the Weird but True page. It is in this page where you can find 10 or more outrageous facts that are very hard to believe but are certainly true. Here is an excerpt from one of my Nat Geo Kids magazines that I received last May 2007:
Weird But True Facts:
1.
It would take about 3 years of nonstop pedaling to bike to the moon.
2. Koalas and humans have similar fingerprints.
3. A waterfall in Hawaii sometimes goes up instead of down.
Most experts believe that birds descended from dinosaurs.
5. Earth travels about 1.6 million miles everyday.
6. The first telephone answering machine was 3 feet tall.
7. The United States once issued a 3-cent bill.
8. Certain sharks walk on their fins underwater.
9. Dirty snow melts faster than clean snow.
10 On sunny days, the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France, leans toward shade.
11 Parachutes were invented before airplanes.
12 The Liberty Bell weighs more that 2,000 pounds.
13 There is a village called zigzag in Oregon.
14 Some moths drink tears of elephants.
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