All-New Book of Amazing Facts, Vol. 2

Introduction 4 Animals and Biology . . . . . . . 7 Boo Boo the Cat | Pigs | Grasshopper Mouse | Snowman Dragonflies | Vanilla | Dolphins | Hampton Court Grapevine Tomatoes | Scorpions | Anglerfish | Iguanas | Bald Eagles Bioluminescence | Bats | Endicott Pear Tree | Dindim Statocyst Stone | Pronghorns | Bluefin Tuna | Honeybee Baltimore Web | Tardigrade | Long-beaked Echidna Manuela | Brazilian Free Tail | Seeds | Palawan Pearl Mushrooms | Fairy Shrimp People and Places . . . . . . . . 41 Aleksander Doba | Sargasso Sea | Luke Aikins Gotthard Base Tunnel | Wilmer McLean | Sarah Pardee-Winchester Victor Lustig | Paris Catacombs | Angkor Wat | Harry Houdini Larry Swilling | Hulda Crooks | Pompeii | Fred Demara Francisco Pizarro | Khalid bin Mohsen Shaari | Juana Maria David Kunst | Taj Mahal | Rjukan | Hadrian’s Wall Juliane Koepcke | Joseph Lister | Robert Wadlow Zimbabwe | Vatican City | Lillian Alling | Jeff Kolodzinski Hedviga Golik | Ithaa Culture and History . . . . . . . 77 Modesty Glasses | Andrew Jackson Assassination Attempt Pearl of Venus | Statue of Liberty | Camp Century Astrology and Mediums | Golden Doorstop | Barbershops Age of Stress | Roasted Camel | Marathon | Sky City Pitcairn Island Paradise | Atahualpa | Lincoln’s Grave Inflatable Tanks | Ivy League | Gladiators School Gas Explosion | Sacramento’s Buried Treasure Science and Technology . . . . . 99 Anechoic Chamber | First Apple Computer | Canning Telephone | F2 Atomic Clock | Computer vs. the Human Brain Roads | Space Shuttle | Large Hadron Collider | Neutron Stars Facial Recognition | Solar Power Tower | Luxor Hotel | Satellites Arecibo Observatory | Starfish Prime | Great Pacific Garbage Patch Chunnel | Atomic Theory | Lasers | Harmony Bullet Train 3 Table of Contents