What on Earth! Magazine

What on Earth! Magazine, published in partnership with Encyclopaedia Britannica, is the UK’s fastest-growing children’s magazine, helping curious kids fall in love with reading, knowledge and learning. Covering all their favourite topics – from space, animals and the natural world, to history, machines and inventions – each issue is bursting with amazing facts, photos, quizzes, puzzles, jokes and more!

FACTopia! • Follow the trail of crazily connected facts all the way from a world record for guzzling hot dogs to… how slugs communicate using their slimy trails!

SNAP IT! • Astonishing photos from around the world

Eureka! • The latest astonishing discoveries, inventions and scientific breakthroughs.

CAN YOU BELIEVE IT?! • Throughout history, people have believed some strange and extraordinary things about the world which we now know to be untrue. Here we celebrate a selection of the most fascinating (and funny!) examples.

Strange things that people believed about the Moon

NOBODY KNOWS! • People recommend all sorts of things to cure hiccups. Hold your breath. Sip cold water. Bite a lemon. However, none of them is scientifically proven to work every time. So as for whether there is a simple, universal cure for a case of hiccups…

COLOUR IT IN!

The BIG Britannica Family Quiz • Test your family’s brainpower by playing this special four-page edition of the Big Britannica Quiz! Regular readers of Britannica Magazine may have an advantage because some of the facts appeared in previous issues of the magazine. Don’t worry if you don’t know them all, though - the answers are at the end of the quiz. Good luck!

LISTIFIED! • Prepare to be amazed (and amused!) by the unusual facts crammed into these irresistible lists.

Micro Machines • Ten of the smallest machines ever made

Absolutely Everything! • Each month we feature an amazing story from world history taken from the bestselling book by Christopher Lloyd, with illustrations by Andy Forshaw. This month: the dinosaurs!

Puzzles & Games • Stumped? Don’t worry, you can find the answers to all the puzzles on page 42.

Picture Quiz • Can you work out what you are looking at in each of these seven photos?

Make your own mosaic! • Humans have been creating beautiful mosaics for thousands of years. Discover some of their fascinating history, then follow these simple instructions to design and make your own.

SEND IT IN! YOUR fact of the month! • Send your favourite fact to: facts@britannicamagazine.com

Ask the experts • Readers ask. Experts answer. Send your questions to: experts@britannicamagazine.com

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PUZZLE ANSWERS

JOKES & riddles • Tickle your ribs and tease your brain with our favourite gags and riddles, hand-picked by our jokes editor May.