Developing, writing for, and editing books for Portable Press, home of Uncle John’s Bathroom Readers, turned Kim into a collector of all things weird, bizarre, wonderful, bamboozling…but true! Here are some of the fascinating facts she’s discovered over the years.
Foul Fact
Hagfish got the nickname “slime eel” because they look like eels and they can ooze enough slime to fill a bucket in just a few minutes.
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Early footballs weren’t made from a pig’s skin. They were made from a pig’s bladder. A bladder is a hollow organ. It usually holds, well, pee.
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An insect known as the “ant lion” spends its entire life walking backward.
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A man in India made the GUINNESS BOOK OF WORLD RECORDS by letting his ear hair grow to 5.25 inches.
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Police in Connecticut arrested a man for robbery. When they asked him to return to the scene of the crime so witnesses could see him, the robber said, “How can they identify me? I had a mask on.”
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The memoirs of at least three American astronauts say that one of the most beautiful things to see from a capsule is the snowy sparkle of urine ejected into space. When “flushed” into space, drops of pee freeze instantly, and a silverly snowstorm swirls around the capsule.
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Battledore-wing fairy flies are teensy weensy wasps, only .0083 inches long—the size of the period at the end of a sentence.
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A tiger’s tongue is so rough it can lick the paint off a building.
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President Grover Cleveland had an artificial jaw. It was made of rubber.
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In 2004, a 10-year-old girl wasn’t content with the bite-on plastic fangs that most Halloween costume stores sell. She thought it would be cooler to glue plastic fangs on top of her real front teeth. It took an emergency trip to the dentist to pry these fangs off.
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Talk about a powerful fart! The long skinny rove beetle releases a chemical from its rear end that can actually move it across the surface of a pond. The tiny gas bubble rapidly expands and pushes the beetle in front of it.
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