Crazy Things I've Learned this Summer

1.   Some sea stars break off their own arms when frightened.
2.   You can buy buy fake eyebrows and eyelashes made out of real hair.
3.   Salt has been used as money.
4.   There are more pets in Japan than children.
5.   Ancient Greeks used hula hoops.
6.   A goldfish will turn grey if kept in the dark for a long time.
7.   You can buy soap that smells like bacon frying.  (Sasha loves bacon.  She'd like that soap.)
8.   Dogs pant up to 300 times a minute.
9.   A man in Canada can balance 17 spoons on his face at once.
10. A canary can sing two different songs at the same time.
11. Some fish eggs hatch in the dad's mouth.  (Gross)
12. Honey bees have hair on their eyeballs.
13. A man once made 956 pancakes in one hour.
14. Birds don't sweat.
15. Kid's fingerprints disappear from surfaces faster than adults' do.
16. An inventor created edible dinner plates. (I guess then I wouldn't have to clear the table.)
17. Mexico City has sunk 26 feet in the last 100 years.
18. If you are 12 years old on Earth, you'd be about 6 on Mars.
19. Male seahorses give birth.
20. Tiny bugs live in your eyebrows. (Gross)
21. Apples float but pears sink. (Why is this?)
22. Bat hair has been used as money. (I saw a sleeping bat in a cave this summer in Montana.)
23. You can buy bat droppings for $10 a pound.  (Bat droppings are used to make makeup.  Gross.)
24. You can shine your shoes with a banana peel.
25. Almonds belong to the rose family.
26. Babies' cries sound different in different languages.
27. A traffic jam in China lasted more than a week. (Imagine if you had to get to school!)
28. You can buy worms from a vending machine in Japan. (My favourite vending machine treat is white    cheddar popcorn.)
29. Half of the world's oxygen is made in the ocean.
30. You are more likely to be in a bad mood on Thursdays, according to a recent study.
31. Lachanophobia is the fear of vegetables.   (I have a fear of cooked cabbage.  Gross.)
32. There are mushrooms that glow in the dark.
33. Rotten eggs float in water.
34. Harmless microscopic shrimp may live in your drinking water. (My cousin Myles would like that.)
35. Some turtles breath through their rear ends.
36. Lemons have more sugar than strawberries.
37. Elephants can run faster than humans.
38. You lose up to 100 hairs a day.
39. Seeing the colour red can make your heart beat faster.
40. A woman's heart usually beats faster than a man's heart.
41. Four-thousand year old popcorn was found in a cave in New Mexico.  (That would be stale!)
42. In Italy, you can buy fresh pizza from a vending machine. (Pepperoni is my favourite kind.)
43. A cat has about 20 muscles in each ear.
44. The corpse flower grows up to 12 feet tall and smells like rotting meat.  (Gross. That's worse than cooked cabbage!)
45. A ripe cranberry will bounce.

What crazy things did you learn this summer?

(Source - National Geographic Kids Weird But True 3)