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Author:

Murrie, Steve.

Title:

Every Day On Earth : Fun Facts That Happen Every 24 Hours Steve Murrie & Matthew Murrie ; illustrated by Tom Bloom.

Publisher:

Scholastic

Copyright Date:

c2011

Description:

224 p. : col. ill.

Subject:

Curiosities and wonders--Juvenile literature.
Earth--Juvenile literature.--Juvenile literature.
Handbooks, vade-mecums, etc. Juvenile literature.
Time--Juvenile literature.--Juvenile literature.

Other Authors:

Bloom, Tom.
Murrie, Matthew.

Notes:

Includes index. Living things -- Earth -- Food -- The human body -- Pop culture -- Space -- Technology -- Sports.

Summary:

A whole day is plenty of time to finish your homework or go to the park, but did you ever imagine that in a single day you take around 8,000 steps; 100,000 of your taste buds are replaced; a bat eats up to 1,000 insects; 27,000 trees are cut down just to make toilet paper in the United States; and a mayfly lives its entire life? Here are presented almost 200 incredible facts like these.

ISBN:

0545297060
9780545297066 (pbk.)

Locations:

GFPE771 -- Altoona Public Library (Altoona)

GXPA501 -- Baxter Community Library (Baxter)

TNPD062 -- Belle Plaine Community Library (Belle Plaine)

SAPG074 -- Cedar Falls Public Library (Cedar Falls)

XBPE737 -- Lied Public Library - Clarinda (Clarinda)

XXPH787 -- Council Bluffs Public Library (Council Bluffs)

JSSX094 -- Janesville School Library (Janesville)

LASX353 -- CAL Community School District Library (Latimer)

W7PA017 -- Public Resource Technology Center (Orient Public Lib) (Orient)

RVPB135 -- Pomeroy Public Library (Pomeroy)

YIPB062 -- Shellsburg Public Library (Shellsburg)