Mitchell Symons - How to Avoid a Wombats Bum

Contents About the Book How to avoid a wombats bum? Dont chase it! Wombats can run up to 25 miles per hour and stop dead in half a stride. They kill their predators this way the predator runs into the wombats bum-bone and smashes its face. Amaze and intrigue your friends and family with more fantastic facts and figures: Most dinosaurs were no bigger than chickens Everton was the first British football club to introduce a stripe down the side of players shorts The Monopoly square that is most often landed on is Trafalgar Square A snail has about 25,000 teeth No piece of paper can be folded in half more than seven times Just opening this book with have you hooked for hours!

To children everywhere but especially mine FIRST THINGS The first ready-to-eat breakfast cereal was Shredded Wheat in 1893 (it beat Kelloggs Corn Flakes by just five years). The first photograph of the moon was taken in 1839 (by Louis Daguerre) but the details were not clear. J. W.

Draper took the first recognizable photograph a year later. The first man to fly over the North Pole and indeed the South Pole was called Dickie Byrd.

Gustav Mahler composed his first piece of music at the age of four, Sergei Prokofiev composed his first piece of music aged five and Wolfgang Mozart was eight when he composed his first symphony. The first member of the Royal Family ever to leave home for a haircut was the Queen. It was in Malta back in the days when she was a princess. The first personal computer, the Apple II, went on sale in 1977. Everton was the first British football club to introduce a stripe down the side of players shorts. The London Underground system was first used in 1863. The first ever organized Christmas Day swim in the freezing cold Serpentine in Londons Hyde Park took place in 1864. Pitcairn Airlines was the first airline to provide sick bags (in 1922). The first sport to have a world championship was billiards in 1873. The first in-flight movie was shown on a Lufthansa flight on 6 April 1925. Austria was the first country to use postcards. The first product to have a bar code was Wrigleys chewing gum. The first words spoken on the telephone by its inventor, Alexander Graham Bell, were: Watson, come here, I need you. The first toothbrush was invented in China in 1498. The first British telephone directory was published by the London Telephone Company in 1880.The first British telephone directory was published by the London Telephone Company in 1880.

It listed more than 250 names and numbers. Captain Cook was the first man to set foot on every continent (except Antarctica). Beethovens Fifth was the first symphony to include trombones. Ice-cream cones were first served at the 1904 Worlds Fair in St Louis, United States of America.

Bingo was first played in 1888. Spectacles were first worn in Italy in about 1285. The first Internet domain name to be registered was symbolics.com in March 1985. The first man-made object to break the sound barrier was a whip. MOUNT EVEREST FIRSTS First ascent: 29 May 1953 by Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay. First person to reach the summit twice: Nawang Gombu Sherpa on 20 May 1965. First woman to reach the summit: Junko Tabei on 16 May 1975. First ascent without bottled oxygen: Peter Habeler and Reinhold Messner on 8 May 1978. First winter ascent: Krzysztof Wielicki on 17 February 1980. First blind person to reach the summit: Erik Weihenmayer on 25 May 2001. First blind person to reach the summit: Erik Weihenmayer on 25 May 2001.

BEGINNINGS A newborn kangaroo is small enough to fit in a teaspoon. Babies born in May are on average 200 grams heavier than babies born in other months.

From fertilization to birth, a babys weight increases 5,000 million times.Next page