curiosities and wonders

A collection of world records.

Offers a collection of true facts about animals, food, science, pop culture, weather, plants, and history.

Text and illustrations look at different record-breaking animals, plants, animals and locations from throughout the world.

Text and photographs provide a collection of facts about deserts, rainbows, sleep, and other topics.

An introduction to weather combines elementary facts with vibrant National Geographic photography in an early reference that explains how weather systems are organized and create the environmental conditions that lead to drought, blizzards, and more.

A collection of questions and answers discussing what would or could happen of the world was just a different place.

"The duo behind the massively successful podcast 'Stuff You Should Know' offers an unexpected look at weird, fascinating, delightful, or unexpected elements of a wide variety of topics, featuring new subjects that they've long wondered about and wanted to explore"--OCLC.

Contains hundreds of true facts and statistics about things that have been accomplished in just sixty seconds.

"From silly to serious to outright bizarre, this ... collection [of trivia] offers surprising answers and unexpected facts on everything from history and science to pop culture and nature"--Amazon.com.

Centaurs are the half-human, half-horse creatures known for making trouble. These mythical creatures are known from Greek mythology, but they continue to make their way into the stories and media of today.