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53 Gross-Out Giggles: Amazing Facts for Curious Six-Year-Olds Part 2 · The Story Time With Lucky Podcast

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  Welcome back to Storytime with Loki Podcast.
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  Today we're going to read Amazing Gross Facts Every Six-Year-Old Needs to Know
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  Overflowing with Fascinating, Hilarious, and Utterly Disgusting Trivia for,
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  Children Age Six and Over,
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  When they burn out of butter, Vikings use seal blubber,
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  fat on their bread.
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  In the 1660s, a pineapple was so expensive that wealthy could display that in
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  their homes until it rotted away.
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  But all the ancient Egyptians believed that rubbing fat from their crocodiles
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  and snakes on their heads would make their hair grow back.
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  A flamingo could only eat when it's head is upside down.
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  It uses its beak like a spade to scoops out of the water.
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  As there is no gravity in space, astronauts fix themselves to a toilet that
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  sucks their poop down like a vacuum cleaner to the containers and launch.
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  Astronaut's poop is then sucked into containers,
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  and launched into space where it burns up so the next time you think you see
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  a shooting star it could be a burning poop,
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  Air isn't clean running water in space, so astronauts have invented a way,
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  to clean their pee so they can drink it.
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  What is it? A burp is your body's way of releasing gas when you swallow too much air. Is that right?
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  Eating onions, eggs and cheese creates some of the smelliest burps.
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  A blue whale's tongue is heavier than an elephant and it can only taste salt.
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  Okay. There is a festival in Italy where people compete to see who has the longest,
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  and loudest boob. There is also a competition to see who can burp out the longest words.
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  Someone wants boob supercalifraguticisticexpital dishes.
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  At the La Totina Food Festival in Spain, people throw tomatoes at each other.
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  The more rotten and squishy, the better.
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  There is a melon festival in Australia. People wear melons and water-heated
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  melons and complete melon-eating braces.
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  Forget about mud wrestling. Head to the Barnesville Potato Festival in USA and
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  try some mashed potato wrestling instead.
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  Ancient Romans used pee as a mouthwash. They believed it would keep their teeth clean and healthy.
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  One of the world's largest bat colonies in Texas, USA, is a home to millions
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  of bats and is full of poop.
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  Poop, poop, more poop, poop.
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  During the American Civil War in 1860s, soldiers used bat poop,
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  also known as guano, to make gunpowder.
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  There is a mushroom that smells fishy when first pickers the aunt's scent disappears
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  when it is cooked through.
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  Sticking bishop is a type of cheese which apparently tastes delicious if you
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  can ignore a striking smell.
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  Well, that's easy anyways.
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  The corbett lily, which has a snake like a head and a leaf like a tongue,
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  attracts flies and traps them inside before digesting them.
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  The end and thank you for listening.