8000 Things You Should Know

Description

This incredible reference resource covers eight subject areas and provides 8000 bulleted facts. There are 800 panels, each containing an illustration and ten key facts, star facts and news flashes. There are no long passages of text – just facts like these:

• At 1743m, Lake Baikal is the deepest lake in the world, holding 20 percent of he world’s fresh water.
• The box jellyfish has one of the most deadliest poisons and can kill a human in 30 seconds.
• If all he muscles in your body pulled together, they would be strong enough to lift a bus
• Every 50 million years, the Earth is hit by an asteroid measuring more than 10km in width.

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