This bulging compendium is loaded with jaw-dropping, eye-popping, brain-bending facts and bright, bold photography! It pairs the planet's quirkiest, wackiest facts with the coolest and strangest true stories. From amazing asteroids, killer plants, peculiar puffins and wonderful wombats, to the world's tiniest buildings, lost cities and strangest sporting heroes. Whether it's bizarre beaches, cool cable cars, floating buildings, or brilliant bugs, this new 2020 annual is filled with the wackiest facts! Features include:* Facts and stories about geography, biology, the animal kingdom, social sciences, human achievement and innovation* Infographics and fact files* Bright, bold photography and illustration* A fact-finding index

Offers a collection of true facts about such topics as animals, food, science, outer space, geography, and weather.

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.

Did you hear the one about the crook who broke into a vending machine and then left a trail of cheese curls all the way to his hideout? Or the burglar who left his wallet in an apartment he robbed, and actually went back to get it? Based on the Stupid criminals busted! column in National Geographic kids magazine, this collection of stories about stupid criminals and the ridiculous ways they give themselves away is illustrated with collage art and sprinkled with more than 150 weird-but-true facts about crime.

Collects three hundred facts about dinosaurs.

Presents facts, brief stories, photos, and illustrations showing that fact can be as weird as fiction.

"Funny facts and information about Halloween, for kids"--

Offers a collection of true facts about such topics as animals, food, science, outer space, geography, and weather in relation to the USA.

Offers a collection of true facts about animals, food, science, pop culture, outer space, geography, and weather.

Packed with 300 wacky facts for young history lovers.