Do you and your children love discovering new and fascinating facts about things? What about a series of facts that are all linked together? Choose your own path through this dazzling book packed with fun facts that are all linked.
This fascinating hardback book is filled with incredible and hilarious facts, all of which are verified by Encyclopaedia Britannica. Did you know that a squid has a doughnut-shaped brain? That goats have rectangular pupils…Mars has blue sunsets…or that the average dog can understand 165 words? Hop from topic to topic in delightfully unexpected ways to discover what connects dinosaurs with chickens or breakfast with black holes! Follow the fact path as it twists and turns – who knows where your curiosity will take you!
Factopia is priced £10.99 and is available from Wicked Uncle.
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43 comments
What a good book to encourage children to read! It looks very entertaining!
The fastest gust of wind ever recorded on Earth was 253 miles per hour
Cats can’t taste sweetness as they lack sweet taste receptors.
The best place in the world to see rainbows is in Hawaii.
The entire population of Central Europe during the Stone Age could have fit on a cruise ship
The best place in the world to see rainbows is in Hawaii
The giant weta, found only in New Zealand, is the world’s heaviest insect and can jump up to 2 meters.
Gummy Bears were originally called Dancing Bears x
More people speak Mandarin Chinese than any other language.
The chief translator of the European Parliament speaks 32 languages fluently.
Sorry I only know mundane facts:(
Bees have 5 eyes
A pineapple is actually a type of berry! Well, it’s a fruit where lots of berries have combined together to make a pineapple!
My 6 year old told me this!
I picked this up from one of the random YouTube videos my kids like…
If you are allergic to latex you are more likely to be allergic to kiwis & mangos due to the protein similarity… Which is crazy lol
I’m allergic to latex and when I eat kiwi my mouth feels funny. Never even put the two together
Worker ants are all female! I picked this up recently from a nature programme haha.
It only takes two days to reach the Moon from Earth which happened on the Apollo missions.
You can’t lick your own elbow!!
The best place in the world to see rainbows is Hawaii
Nothing rhymes with orange and on reading this fact you will try and find a word that does
This looks a very interesting book for all ages
A weird fact about me. From the age of 5 I’ve chosen two words every New Year’s Eve to not say for a whole year. No idea why but I’m still doing it 30 years on!
The Snickers chocolate bar was named after a racehorse 🙂 Thanks for running the giveaway
a seahorse male gets pregnant
An average worker bee makes only about 1/12 teaspoon of honey in its lifetime. At the peak of the honey-gathering season, a strong, healthy hive will have a population of approximately 50,000 bees.
The best place in the world to see rainbows is in Hawaii.
Wearing headphones for a long period of time increases bacteria in your ears due to the increased temperature and humidity in the ear canal
I have just received my season ticket for my local football club!
in 1896, Walter Arnold of Kent became the first person to be convicted of speeding. He was fined one shilling, plus costs, for speeding at 8 mph, which exceeded the speed limit of 2 mph.
Ant’s take rest for around 8 Minutes in 12 hour period.
Pilots and their co-pilots are required to eat different meals before flights so that they don’t both end up with food poisoning.
An octopus has three hearts & nine brains!
As a sidenote, My Octopus Teacher is a fascinating documentary too.
This looks a fascinating book
Drinking too much water can be life-threatening!
Hummingbirds are the only birds that can fly backwards
You can hear a blue whale’s heartbeat from over 2 miles away
What a great book! My 10 year old is constantly come through to tell me random facts he’s heard about. But now you’ve asked me for one my mind had gone blank haha. One I do know, because we have a budgie, is that birds enjoy eating hot peppers, because they don’t have the same receptors as we do that make them burn our mouths. So to them they’re just tasty treats. How wild is that? When we first made the daily chop up for our budgie and it said to add chilli peppers I was so worried for her… until I learned this!
No location in the UK is further away from the sea than 125 km/ 77 miles
The best place in the world to see rainbows is in Hawaii.
The “weapons-grade” Dragon’s Breath chili pepper is so hot it’s downright deadly. If you ate one, it could potentially cause a type of anaphylactic shock, burning your airways and closing them up.
The Sun Is Million Times Bigger Than Earth
The only letter that doesn’t appear on the periodic table is J.
There are three hearts and nine brains in an octopus.
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