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03277aam a2200313Ii 4500 001 70241256A3C311E5AB6702EDDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20151216010155 008 131021t20132013dcuab j 001 0 eng d 020 $a 0545638798 020 $a 9780545638791 035 $a (OCoLC)861186464 040 $a WDG $c WDG $d IT5 $d VP@ $d SILO 100 1 $a Krieger, Emily, $e author. 245 10 $a Myths busted! : $b just when you thought you knew what you knew-- / $c by Emily Krieger ; illustrated by Tom Nick Cocotos. 264 1 $a New York : $b Scholastic, $c [2013] 300 $a 207 pages : $b color illustrations, color map ; $c 17 x 17 cm 490 1 $a National Geographic kids 500 $a Includes index. 505 0 $a Swallowing spiders -- Eight more spider myths busted! -- Earth's orbit -- Pigs are filthy -- Porcupines throw quills -- Poinsettias are poisonous -- Dog years -- Five of the oldest-living animal species -- Dinosaurs brought back to life -- Women talk more than men -- Acne goes away with age -- Five-second rule -- Seven things dirtier than your toilet -- Eggs balance on end during equinox -- bad-luck pennies -- "Luke, I am your father" -- Duck quacks don't echo -- purple pool water -- Bats are blind -- Six more bat myths busted! -- Lightning never strikes twice -- Humans use 10% of their brains -- Killer sharks -- Ten things more likely to kill you than a shark -- Full-moon behavior -- George Washington's teeth -- Five more weird facts about presidential bodies -- Water drains opposite ways -- Cats land on their feet -- Your heart stops when you sneeze -- Pop rocks and soda -- Turkey makes you sleepy -- Bird bellies explode if they eat rice -- Hair and nails grow after death -- The great wall of China -- Six human-made things you can see from space -- Pennies from the Empire State Building -- Napoleon was short -- Tilt your head back to stop a nosebleed -- Sitting too close to the TV -- Six more sight myths busted! -- Alligators in sewers -- Six animals that do live in NYC sewers -- A toad can give you warts -- Bigfoot exists -- Ten more creatures that most likely don't exist -- Dogs' mouths are cleaner than humans' -- Never let a black cat cross your path -- Digesting chewing gum -- Bull charge when they see red -- Mother birds reject babies -- Opossums hand by their tails -- Ten other animals that hand around in trees -- Penguins fall backward -- Elephants are afraid of mice -- Don't open an umbrella indoors -- Goldfish have a three-second memory -- A camel's hump holds water -- Fortune cookies come from China -- Eight more things that didn't come from where you think they did -- Tapping a soda can -- Hold your breath passing a graveyard. 520 $a A collection of urban myths reveals how each has been disproved, sharing hundreds of facts about myth origins, their historical significance, and the ways they were investigated by scientific debunkers. 650 0 $a Common fallacies $x Juvenile literature. 700 1 $a Cocotos, Tom Nick, $e illustrator. 830 0 $a National Geographic kids. 941 $a 3 952 $l WXPD305 $d 20190418021249.0 952 $l CXPC586 $d 20180731010955.0 952 $l EZPE755 $d 20151216021122.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=70241256A3C311E5AB6702EDDAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search