This just in! The most bizarre and surprising news stories you've ever read, and they're all true! Glow-in-the-dark piglets, soccer-playing parrots, cicada-flavoured ice cream, fashion-forward slugs!

Get ready to be amazed by weird and wacky headlines from across the globe! Weird But True! Ripped From the Headlines has all the things you'd expect from a regular news publication-world news, sports and science sections, entertainment stories, and more-but with a brand-new twist: These stories are almost too strange to believe! Ripped From the Headlines covers mind-bending trivia about animals, athletes, space, food, toys, geography, money, weather, and more. Get ready to open your eyes to the wild wonders of the world. You'll never look at the news the same way again!

This book is part of a book series called Weird But True .

There are 176 pages in this book. This is an encyclopedia. An encyclopedia is a book or numbered set of books containing authoritative summary information about a variety of topics in the form of short essays, usually arranged alphabetically by headword or classified in some manner. An entry may be signed or unsigned, with or without illustration or a list of references for further reading. Headwords and text are usually revised periodically for publication in a new edition. In a multivolume encyclopedia, any indexes are usually located at the end of the last volume. Encyclopedias may be general (example: Encyclopedia Americana) or specialized, usually by subject (Encyclopedia of Bad Taste) or discipline (Encyclopedia of Social Work). This book was published 2014 by National Geographic Kids .

National Geographic Kids collaborates to put forth fun and interesting non-fiction for kids.