The All-New Book of Amazing Facts, Volume 1

Introduction 4 Animals and Biology . . . . . . . 7 Human Voice | Bamboo | Sponges | Water Spider Bald Eagles | Titan Arum | Bombardier Beetles | Bowhead Whale Bristlecone Pine | Bumblebees | Coelacanth | Dogs | Elephants European Cuckoo | Geckos | Giraffes | Hammer Orchid Crows and Ravens | Kangaroos | Ants | Moses and Cassie Matriphagy | Migration | Two-Headed Turtle | Rabbit-Proof Fence Rocky Mountain Locust | Human Tongue | Manchineel Tyrian Purple | Woolly Bear Caterpillars People and Places . . . . . . . . 41 Nan Aspinwall | Polyglot | Babylon | Koshe Rubbish Landfill Pu’uhonua | City of the Dead | David Douglas | Desmond Doss Frank Hayes | George Washington Carver | Gilberto Araujo Golden Gate Bridge | Israel | John Chapman Jerusalem’s Underground Cemetery | Kevin Coughlin Emma Morano | Leaning Tower of Pisa | Alexander Selkirk Mihailo Tolotos | Chris Bertish | Moon | Slavomir Rawicz Maewyn Succat | Vacationers | Ford’s Fair Lane | Amou Haji Leonardo da Vinci | Valley of Bones | Werner Forssmann Culture and History . . . . . . . 77 Church Attendance | Monopoly | American Television 28-Hour Sermon | Alcohol and Lincoln | Comet Crash St. Francis Dam Break | Debt-Free America | Enigma Machines World’s Longest Flight | Gutenberg Bibles | Identity Theft Krakatoa Eruption | World’s Largest Building | Liberty Bell Military Superpower | Tornado in D.C. | Traffic Signals Wicked Bible | World’s Worst Traffic Jam Science and Technology . . . . . 101 10,000-Year Clock | Aluminum | Water Treatment | Liquid Paper Nuclear Submarines | Chelyabinsk Meteor | Doldrums Quiet Zone | Human Speed | Aurora Borealis | Placebo SynCardia | Black Holes | Carrington Super Flare SR-71 Blackbird | Super Glue | Tsunamis | Black Death Voyager Missions | Three Gorges Dam | Ultra Deep Field 3 Table of Contents