At head of title: Reader's Digest. Over 600 true stories delve into history and come up with all-American entertainment.

The bizarre beasts, incredible places, and peculiar phenomenons featured in this mind-blowing compendium are not just really weird - they're really real! With more than 125,000 copies sold worldwide, this wacky encyclopedia explores our world's most exciting oddities. Did you know there's a plant that eats mice? Or that you can dip your toe in a rainbow-colored river? From fiery tornadoes flying across the sky to huge sinkholes eating up the earth, each example is illustrated with jaw-dropping images and handy fast facts that provide the explanations behind the stories. Whether it's geography, people, places, animals, plants, or weather, Strange But True! is the ideal book for curious young minds who are fascinated by our weird and wonderful world.

A collection of fun and surprising facts about our world.

Young readers looking for goofy facts, strange tales, and incredible photos will love Fun Facts & Silly Stories 4, the latest entry in Ripley’s Believe It or Not's® best-selling series. Filled with brand new information not found in any other Ripley's book, Fun Facts & Silly Stories 4 contains hundreds of amazing facts to entertain and engage readers. Age-appropriate and easy to enjoy, the Fun Facts & Silly Stories series brings laughter and learning together for kids! Fun Facts & Silly Stories 4 is perfectly kid-sized, yet packs a punch with hundreds of weird, silly, and amusing stories and snippets. Featuring the same square format, large colorful type, and amazing photos that made the series such a success, this latest volume is sure to entertain and amaze even the most reluctant young reader. Age-appropriate text engages kids as they build their reading skills. Perfect for both the family library as well as the classroom, Fun Facts & Silly Stories 4 is sure to please!

Bizarre historical tidbits about quirky queens, hippopotamus soup, shrunken heads, and much more! This exciting title from the folks at the Bathroom Readers’ Institute contains the strangest short history articles from over thirty Bathroom Readers, along with fifty all-new pages. From the twentieth century to the Old West, from the Age of Enlightenment to the Dark Ages, from ancient cultures all the way back to the dawn of time, Strange History is overflowing with mysterious artifacts, macabre legends, kooky inventions, reality-challenged rulers, boneheaded blunders, and mind-blowing facts. Whether it’s B.C. or A.D., you’ll be wondering WTF! Read about . . . The curse of Macbeth Stupid history: Hollywood style The secret LSD experiments of the 1960s In search of the lost “Cloud People” of Peru The Swedish queen who declared war on fleas Unearthing the past with the Outhouse Detectives The Apollo astronaut who swears he saw a UFO How to brew a batch of 5,000-year-old beer The brutal bloodbaths at Rome’s Coliseum Ghostly soup from ancient China The bathroom of the 1970s And much, much more!

Almost everyone would agree that there's some point where enough jewelry is enough. Well, what is that point? In this book, Doug Batchelor challenges you to find out for yourself what God's Word says on this fascinating subject.

As the title suggests, The Giant Book Of Unusual Facts, contains a huge list of unbelievable and unusual facts about the world that we live in. The facts range from the craziest events to the funniest people. The Giant Book Of Unusual Facts is packed with interesting, entertaining, educational and fun things to read. You'll get everything from the weird to the wonderful and from the horrible to the hilarious. Facts such as: Hugh Thompson Jr. ordered his own crew to fire upon friendly soldiers if they wouldn

"How ordinary men and women have explained the strange, the uncanny, and the incredible"--Subtitle on dust jacket.