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Totally random facts. Vol. 2 : 3,219 surprising, strange, and striking things about the world / Melina Gerosa Bellows.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Totally random factsPublisher: New York : Bright Matter Books, [2023]Copyright date: ©2023Edition: First editionDescription: 215 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 31 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780593516461
  • 059351646X
Other title:
  • 3,219 surprising, strange, and striking things about the world
  • Three thousand two hundred and nineteen surprising, strange, and striking things about the world
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Contents:
Awesome animals -- Planet Earth -- Happening history -- Splendid sports -- Super science and terrific tech -- Into the ocean -- The amazing human body -- Stellar space -- Random roundup.
Summary: "Packed with over 3,000 facts about everything from cuddly baby animals to lethal predators, outer space to the deep sea, and man-made marvels, human history, and more, each page explodes with colorful photographs, perfectly paried with endless lists of easy-to-remember info about the wondrous world around us."-- Page 4 of cover
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Children's Book Children's Book Dr. James Carlson Library Children's NonFiction 031.02 B448 Available 33111011078710
Children's Book Children's Book Main Library Children's NonFiction 031.02 B448 Available 33111011317258
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

DID YOU KNOW? Male seahorses give birth, not females. Hershey's kisses used to be square. Squid have nine brains--and the central one's shaped like a donut, with a hole in the middle!

Even MORE fantastic facts and incredible images come to life in the second volume of the kid-favorite TOTALLY RANDOM FACTS series.

There is a wild world of VERY random information out there! This second volume of the beloved Totally Random Facts series rounds up another 3000-plus of those surprising, strange, and striking nuggets of information. Covering everything from cuddly pets to venomous spiders and exoplanets to undersea trenches, this uber-giftable hardcover showcases amazing photography, cool design, and weird-but-true information. If your trivia-phile is interested in it, there's a Totally Random Fact about it!

Find more fantastic facts in Totally Random Facts volume 1, or tempt your uber-curious kid with wacky Q&As in Totally Random Questions volumes 1-8!

Includes index.

Awesome animals -- Planet Earth -- Happening history -- Splendid sports -- Super science and terrific tech -- Into the ocean -- The amazing human body -- Stellar space -- Random roundup.

"Packed with over 3,000 facts about everything from cuddly baby animals to lethal predators, outer space to the deep sea, and man-made marvels, human history, and more, each page explodes with colorful photographs, perfectly paried with endless lists of easy-to-remember info about the wondrous world around us."-- Page 4 of cover

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