Plants
John Farndon
Hardcover
(Grolier, March 15, 2000)
If you are hungry for facts, this is the perfect database. If you like your information served up in bite-size pieces, you will feast on '1000 Things You Should Know'. There are 100 illustrated topic panels on plants and each panel contains 10 key facts. Facts such as: . Every year the world uses three billion cubic meters of wood--a pile as big as a football stadium and as high as Mt Everest. . Legend says Ethiopian goatherds discovered coffee when they saw their goats staying awake all night after eating the berries of the coffee plant. . The juice of a pitcher plant will dissolve a chunk of steak to nothing in a few days. Now discover the other 997 facts in '1000 Things You Should Know About Plants'.
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