The Book of Amazing Incredible Fantastic Facts

Amazing, Incredible Fantastic Facts - Wild Dog Books

by Charles Hope

Don’t you love facts? Facts are the entry point to understanding our fascinating world. The best facts are all here in this fabulous book.

The longest to the shortest, the biggest to the smallest, the fastest, highest, driest, deepest and the most amazing facts.

Warning – reading this book will cause your general knowledge to explode.

Key curriculum topics are covered with these brilliant facts. Excellent teacher support material and classroom ideas available to download

ISBN 9781742033655
RRP $27.99
Paperback 64pp
Format 300mm x 240mm + flexicover
Photographic junior non-fiction
Category: Facts, General Knowledge, Information

Below is a comprehensive list of sources that were used in the making of this book, in the order of pages in which they appear.

Sources

Page 2-3: Babies – The World Counts
Page 4: Lightning – NSSL/NOAA
Page 5: Human flight – Quora and JoNova
Page 6-7: Blood – Australian Red Cross Blood Service
Page 8-9: Hawkes – Hawkes Bay NZ
Page 10-11: Wales – http://www.llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.com/
Page 12-13: Flamingos – About.com
Page 14-15: Andes – International Traveller
Page 15: MOR – National Ocean Service/NOAA
Page 16-17: Ant population – io9 and AntBlog
Page 16: Ant size – National Geographic
Page 17: Ant strength – Nature World News
Page 18: Truffle animals – The Telegraph
Page 18: Truffle record – Most-expensive
Page 19: Tall – Guinness World Records and Think Prams
Page 20: Sloth – Hypertextbook
Page 20: Smell – Nature
Page 20: Stars – ESA
Page 21: Age – GRG (Gerontology Research Group), GRG and Guinness World Records
Page 22-23: Language – Vistawide
Page 23: Letters – Oxford Dictionaries
Page 24-25: Golf – Forbes
Page 26: Names – Independent
Page 26: Germany – Mentalfloss
Page 27: Hyperion – Monumental Trees
Page 28: Cold – Cool Cosmos/Caltech
Page 29: Hot – Cool Cosmos/Caltech
Page 30: Cow – BBC
Page 30: Shrimp – Australian Geographic
Page 30: Records – Ashrita.com
Page 30: Owl – Livescience
Page 31: Berries – Huffington Post and Stanford Alumni
Page 32-33: Crater – Meteorcrater/com and The American Southwest
Page 33: Big meteor – National History Museum
Page 34: Lottery – ABC
Page 35: Spent – Statisticbrain.com
Page 35: Bill – Celebritynetworth.com
Page 36: 72 hours – Livestrong and Medical Daily
Page 36: Panda – WWF
Page 37: Thoughts – Huffington Post
Page 38: Pizza – Huffington Post
Page 39: Bigfoot – Guinness World Records
Page 40-41: Venom – About.com
Page 42-43: Poison – North Carolina Aquariums
Page 44-45: Honey – Golden Blossom Honey
Page 46-47: Sleep – geoba.se and OECD
Page 48-49: Ostrich – Guinness World Records and Animal Records
Page 50-51: Chickens – Economist
Page 51: Five – Population Reference Bureau
Page 52-53: Elephant – ScienceIQ.com
Page 53: Salamander – IUCN Redlist
Page 54-55: Khan!!! – The Guardian
Page 56-57: Bones – Arizona State University
Page 58: Long War – HistoricUK.com
Page 59: Short War – HistoricUK.com
Page 59: Sobhuza II – Swaziland National Trust Commission
Page 60-61: Tigers – WWF
Page 62-63: Giza – TEDBlog
Page 63: Wrangel – TEDBlog