National Geographic Kids USA - November 2017

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Check out these

outrageous facts.

Check out these

outrageous facts.

BY JEFFREY WANDEL

RUBBERBALL / SUPERSTOCK (DONUTS); KRISTY PARGETER / ALAMY (CONFETTI); E

(ELEPHANT); YVA MOMATIUK & JOHN EASTCOTT / MINDEN PICTURES (FOX); JULIDE ENGEL / NG S AFF ( EACH SCENE, OUN SYM OL)

Bald

eagles

live in every

U.S. state except

Hawaii.

A MALE

FOX

IS OFTEN

CALLED

A REYNARD;

A FEMALEFOX IS CALLED

A VIXEN.

ELEPHANTS

WALK

ON

THEIR

TIPTOES.

The Earth weighs about 6.6 billion trillion (that’s

6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000) to.

THE POUND

SYMBOL

ON PHONES

IS ALSO CALLED

AN OCTOTHORPE.

6009

isthenextyear

thatwilllook

thesameright

sideupand

upsidedown;

thelastonewas

D NUTS

DID NOT HAVE

H LES

UNTIL THE 1800s.

MUCH OF THE

DUST

IN YOUR

HOME

COMES FROM

YOUR

FAMILY’S

DEAD SKIN

CELLS.

TELL ME

SOMETHiNG

i DON’T

KNOW.

4 NOVEMBER 2017