10 Awesome Facts (About Everything)

We can't put down National Geographic Kids new book 5,000 Awesome Facts (About everything)

Here are 10 more of our favorite awesome facts from its pages.


1. Black bears sometimes hibernate in the tops of trees.

2. Some of the first flags on pirate ships were red, not black.

3. The most common gift on Father's Day is a necktie.

4. More board games are sold in Germany than anywhere else on Earth.

5. Human babies cannot taste salt until they are 4 months old.

6. If Earth were the size of a grain of sand, the sun would be the size of an orange.

7. In Ancient Greece, it was believed that a person could be transformed into a werewolf by eating human flesh.

8. The name 'India' is derived from the river Indus. It is valley around which people settled in earlier times.

9. India is the second largest English speaking country in the world - 125,226,449 numbers of English speakers.


10. Indian railway employs more than a million people, making it the largest employers in the world.

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