Believe it or not is a new series of books aimed at tweens who love surprising facts, trivia, and playful scientific information.
Posted at 9:00 p.m.
The themes of the books are varied: waste, speed, germs, pain, the nose, toilets, hair and body hair.
Sophie Allard, author and former journalist for The Presssigns the books of the series.
The first two are about the nose and the toilet. We learn in particular that there is a chief nose position at NASA who analyzes the smell of everything that is planned to be put in the cockpit of a shuttle and that Vieux Boulogne, a cheese from the north of France, has been designated as the most stinky in the world!
On the toilet side, we learn that in Canada, 4 billion rolls of toilet paper are used each year, or 104 rolls per year per Canadian, and that it was in 1775 that the Scottish inventor Alexander Cumming made patent the toilet flush as we know it today.