Weird But True! Human Body: 300 Outrageous Facts about Your Awesome Anatomy

Weird but True! Topics

by National Geographic Kids

Get ready to have your mind blown with some hair-raising, eye-popping facts! This latest addition to the crazy popular Weird but True series is all about YOU! It's an exciting internal journey through your own wacky, weird, sometimes gross, but always fascinating human body. Did you know that your stomach is shaped like the letter J? Or that if you lined up all your blood vessels they'd circle the Earth twice? Or that your body gives off a light you can't see? From your head to your toes, you'll be surprised and amazed by what you discover.

Genres: Nonfiction, Childrens, Science, Juvenile

208 pages, Paperback

Published March 28, 2017

About the author

With more than 600 titles—including the popular Weird But True franchise and the New York Times Best Selling National Geographic Kids Almanac—National Geographic Kids Books is the recognized leader in nonfiction for kids. Published in 28 languages, NGK Books reaches approximately 85 million kids every year.

Offering K-12 educators resources that align to and support the Common Core State Standards, National Geographic has a long history of providing high-quality informational texts suitable for primary, upper elementary, and middle school English language arts, social studies, and science classrooms.

Reviews

[Sheri]

I never fail to learn something new when I read a book from this fun and interesting series. The human body with its intricate parts and processes is certainly amazing. Here are a few highlights, but don’t worry, I’ve left out the more disgusting facts in case you’d really rather not know!

All people with blue eyes have one common ancestor.

Fingernails grow fastest on the hand you write with.

Your eyes have more than two million moving parts.

Your body’s smallest muscle is tinier than a grain of rice.

Some people dream only in black and white.

Newborn babies have tiny amounts of gold in their hair.

[Sandy]

300 facts about the human body. I couldn't not read this. So much information and some of that was about pee. Perfect for the 9 year old boy in all of us.

[Olena]

Cool things to learn, though gross in some parts. I suppose the facts arent supposed to be comforting, just fun, abd they were!

[Treena]

Even us grown-ups learned new things from this pretty cool book!

[Akif]

Get ready to have your mind blown with some hair -raising, eye-popping facts! This latest addition to the crazy popular Weird but True series is all about YOU! It's an exciting internal journey through your own wacky, weird, sometimes gross, but always fascinating human body. Did you know that your stomach is shaped like the letter J? Or that if you lined up all your blood vessels they'd circle the Earth twice? Or that your body gives off a light you can't see? From your head to your toes, you'll be surprised and amazed by what you discover.

[Karen]

My nine-year-old son's favorite word is 'weird', and he will read anything that is science-based, so he loved this series. He really enjoyed sharing with me his newly-acquired facts about the human body.

[Shannon Springer]

I enjoy the Weird But True series, and this was fun!

[Maher El-Shawa]

It's one of my best I have ever read
It has very amazing facts that are unknown about the human body

[Ethan]

The book felt kind of weird to me. Because it was about different things like. One thing and then another thing. About the body.

[Sonal]

Babies don't shiver

[Haya Abdelrahman]

Interesting facts
Beautiful illustrations

[Nuqksh Sapra]

The book shares a lot of information about Human Body and awesome facts about human body. I learnt a lot while reading this book.

[Madison Dyer]

It was fun to read; it took me less than an hour I am pretty sure. I loved it but it was really fast. I would give it a 4.5 but it doesn’t let me. :)

[Gabriella Araujo]

This book was fun. the facts are funny and as a kid I would have loved something like this.

[Mahmoud Abbas]

This book has like 100 real facts and the rest is padding.

[Jonas]

I love learning about weird facts, but they're true. Humans have the same number of hairs on their bodies per square inch as gorillas.