Be Part of an Upcoming Book

The Weird But True book is a big hit–so big that it’s being made into a book series! One upcoming Weird But True book will be the first book to ever include facts submitted by NG Kids readers.

Do you have a weird, wacky fact you’d like to see in the new book? Check out the April issue of National Geographic Kids magazine to get the details and find out how to submit your fact.

Don’t enter your fact in the comments! You’ll need to follow
these steps:

1. Find a weird, wacky fact that has not appeared in NG Kids
magazine. Your fact must be true in order to be published.

2. On the same page as your fact, include the following:
  -Your name
  -Your age and date of birth
  -Address with zip code
  -Phone number
  -Name of a parent or guardian

3. Attach at least two reliable sources for your fact, such as printouts from websites or copies of pages from books, newspapers, magazines, encyclopedias, or other sources. Please include the name of the publication, page number, and date of publication or copyright date.

4. You may submit more than one fact, but please include a separate cover sheet for each fact and attach all the source information for the fact to the fact itself.

5. Mail all of this material to this address:
   NG Kids–WBT
   P.O. Box 97056
   Washington, DC 20090-7056

POSTMARK DEADLINE: July 5, 2010

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Comments

  1. 2whitie
    March 31, 2010, 6:08 pm

    Ok… I have one… Did people know that sponges are used in medicine?

  2. Emma
    April 1, 2010, 7:36 am

    I’ve looked at it with my friend.
    Did you know that one woman had eight babies in one go?
    P.S. It is national poetry month people! Let’s post about THAT!

  3. fibonaccimathgenius
    April 1, 2010, 4:48 pm

    Did you know that you are 8 times more likely to get into a car accident while texting and driving than you are driving while significantly intoxicated (under the influence of alcohol)?

    Thought not.
    :) ))

  4. BlueLip55
    April 5, 2010, 1:07 pm

    Good blog! Awesome information about this new book hit!

  5. HelloKitty
    April 7, 2010, 7:41 pm

    Heyo I am new @ this and I just signed up 2day. So what do u talk about??? LOL

  6. jindo2108
    April 11, 2010, 9:52 pm

    I know that I know something……but I don’t know what that something is!
    I don’t know if this is to interesting,but I do know that sea hares are both gender.
    -jindo2108

    P.S.-Hello Kitty-this site is awesome! You’ll find out soon enough!

  7. LilacRose496
    April 16, 2010, 5:09 pm

    I have a fact. Cockroaches go in your ear about every thousand years.

  8. MasterLioness
    April 19, 2010, 7:46 am

    did you know that if you put all the bugs in the worlds in a pile and all the people in the world in another there will be more bugs then people?
    its true!

  9. Anonymous
    April 27, 2010, 7:23 pm

    Well, did you know that YAWNING IS CONTAIGEOUS???

  10. dupontlikesgarfield
    April 29, 2010, 10:22 am

    this is just my 1st time on here!

  11. HP-fan22
    May 13, 2010, 7:35 pm

    Did you know that Barn owls have lopsided ear slits so they can hear better?

  12. kcaj
    September 4, 2012, 11:02 pm

    When I read Weird but True 3, I had a few questions:
    1. How much taller than the Empire State Building was the tallest wave? (page 136)
    2. How much older than 4700 years is the oldest pine tree? (page 110)
    3. How much taller than a 114 storey building is Uluru? (page 95)
    etc.
    etc.

    In a book of “facts”, surely it is not appropriate to use vague expressions such as “more than”, “taller than”?
    Thank you.

  13. jakebunker
    September 25, 2012, 9:28 am

    I got one! Scientests have discovered a planet called Makemake. Another one-our galaxy is so wide that it would take about 100,000 years to travel across it. In 2000, Indonesia had more people living in it than in Russia! China holds about an eighth of the world’s population. The biggest asteroid in the asteroid belt is about the size of Texas, in the U.S.

  14. pielover
    January 6, 2:10 pm

    Did you know that pizza crust has the nutrients from human being hair.did you also know that you can get a popsicle with 22 carrot gold.plus did you know yawns are contageous.I got my facts from national geographic kids magazine. :-)

  15. pielover
    January 6, 4:48 pm

    Um I have another one he he did you know every 1min.an animal is abused.and every 4 seconds somebody dies or is born. Sorry I really want to win. :-)

  16. pielover
    January 8, 8:57 pm

    Ya my first comment I take that back it has been on national geographic I didn’t read the post just commented I am so stupid :(

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