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Find out the answers to these questions and many, many more in this fascinating fact book. With clear, engaging text and vibrant illustrations, kids can discover the worlds fastest, biggest, oldest, and weirdest in an accessible and engaging way. Perfect for children aged 7+.
ABOUT THE SERIES: Big Ideas! is a dynamic, educational fun fact series for children aged seven and up, illustrated throughout with humorous cartoons. Packed with surprising facts, stats, and records that kids will just love to share, it revels in all things weird, unexpected, mind-blowing, funny, and gross!
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This collection of freaky facts and records proves there are a lot of daring peopleand animalsprepared to do some crazy and, frankly, dangerous things just to get into the record books. From surfboarding pooches to karate-chopping chimps, running with angry bulls, kissing snakes, and kid lion tamers, theres plenty to chew on ... including deep-fried spiders.
Dont ask the driver of your school bus to attempt this. Hollywood stuntman Steve Hudis pulled off the world record for the longest bus jump, taking the vehicle on a 33 m (108 ft) leap over 15 motorbikes while surrounded by a fireball!
The original and greatest daredevil, Evel Knievel, would have approved of Hudiss stuntbut Knievel usually jumped buses on a bike, not the other way round!
Rivers dont usually produce waves for surfers to ride, but a natural event called a tidal bore can deliver the goods. These bizarre waves sweep down rivers at speeds of up to 40 km/h (25 mph) and can measure up to 9 m (30 ft) in height. They can also cover distances of up to 300 km (186 mi), if you can stay upright on your board that long.
The Qiantang River tidal bore in China (known by locals as the Silver Dragon) is the most notorious in the world.
The longest non-stop tidal bore surfing record was set by Australian James Cotton in 2016 when he surfed the Kampar River in Sumatra, Indonesia. He managed to surf for 17.2 km (10.6 mi).
Tidal bores are known as pororocas in Brazil, which translates as roar or destroyer. The name is apt, since surfing such unpredictable waves is fraught with physical danger. Many people have been injured while attempting to ride their way to fame and glory.
A real-life daredevil has claimed the name the French Spider-Man by scaling some of the worlds tallest buildings, without ropes or safety gear. Alain Roberts has been climbing unaided since he was a childaged 12, he ascended eight floors of the tower block where he lived because he had forgotten his keys. Roberts has since earned a world record for climbing the 300 m (984 ft) Aspire Tower in Qatar in 1 hour, 33 minutes, and 47 seconds.
Alain Roberts has reached the top of over 100 buildings over the years. These include the Empire State Building, New York; Canary Wharf, London; Eiffel Tower, Paris; Petronas Towers, Kuala Lumpur; Willis Tower, Chicago; Taipei 101, Taiwan; and the worlds tallest building, the 828 m (2,717 ft)-tall Burj Khalifa, Dubai.
Very! Alain Roberts puts his life at risk every time he attempts a climb. After falling 15 m (49 ft) headfirst, he was left in coma for five days with fractures of the pelvis, elbows, heels, nose, and cranium. Fortunately, he recoveredand that painful experience hasnt put him off climbing at all!
No, though Roberts sometimes gets official approval. He only managed to climb 2 m (6.5 ft) of the One Houston Center in Texas, USA, before he was arrested by the police! He has been arrested on several different occasions because of his climbing.
Hurtling over land or water in a plane at breakneck speed, only 4.5 m (15 ft) from the surface, is risky. Now add an aerial racetrack marked by air-filled pylons to navigate, and you have the Red Bull Air Race World Championship. Since 2003, this contest has showcased the worlds best pilots, racing each other across international cities to win nothing more than prestige. Strapped into planes that can reach up to 370 km/h (229 mph), they race round 5-km (3-mile) race tracks, pulling the kind of turns that increases the pilots body by a whopping g-force of 12.
If the pilot clips one of the pylons in a dangerous move, then they can face disqualification. The air-filled pylons are designed to be as safe as possible when hitwhich is frequently! Amazingly, when a planes wing hits the top of a pylon, it simply slices through it like butter. The ground crew then rush out and fix the pylon, filling it back up with air in time for the next race.
The Dangerous Sports Club started in the UK in the late 70s. They were the first to try the modern bungee jump; to hang-glide off Mount Kilimanjaro; to sail across the English Channel tucked into the pouch of an inflatable kangaroo; and to fly around Londons Big Ben in a microlight while dressed as a gorilla playing the saxophone. The group became infamous in the 80s as they would frequently find themselves either being arrested or challenged by officialssuch as when they turned up at the Swiss ski resort of St. Moritz in a double decker bus, ready to drive down the ski slope.
In 2000, daredevil Stella Young was launched 21 m (69 ft) into the air with a medieval-style catapult. She soared through the air at 80 km/h (50 mph) before coming back down to Earth. When she hit the safety net, she bounced out and fell to the ground, fracturing her pelvis. Dont try it at home!
Every July, in the Spanish city of Pamplona, a herd of bulls are released to chase a reckless crowd through the streets. The running of the bulls is part of the Festival of San Fermin. This controversial custom sees everyone dressed in white with red neckerchiefs, trying to outrun six fighting bulls, plus two herds of bullocks, along a 875-m (2,870-ft) course.
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