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4 NAT GEO KIDS^ •^ OCTOBER 2019

BY MARILYN TERRELL

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more crazy-fun facts.

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Some

(^) bats’
(^) hearing^
is strong enough
to detect the sound^
of a beetle
walking on a leaf.
Portions of
Albert Einstein’s
brain are
on display in a museum in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Cryptozoologists
study legendary creatures
such as
Bigfoot.
A goblin
(^) shark
can thrust its jaws
out of its
mouth.
A
town
in
Arizona
is named
Tombstone.
The^ death’s-head
moth has a
skull-shaped design
on its body.
A speck of^
blood
contains about
red blood cells.
(^) Extracts from
human hair
are used to make some
pizza crusts.
The^ candy
corn made each year
could circle the Earth^
just over times.
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