Did you know that :
• Honeybees can be trained to detect explosives?
• Or that the average American Woman spends TWELVE THOUSAND DOLLARS ANNUALLY on beauty products?
• Or that cats have a language: 16 cat words?
 
It's all in: NAT GEO AMAZING! People, Places and Things That Will ‘Wow’ You, a 10-part television series, will debut on the National Geographic Channel on Friday, July 9, 2010, at 7 p.m. EST. Melina Bellows joined us to say that viewers will journey from the shores of Japan to the swamps of Costa Rica as the series reveals the wacky, often whimsical, always wild wonders of the world. The companion book, Nat Geo AMAZING! 100 People, Places, and Things That Will Wow You, contains 100 attention-grabbing stories — each one unique and more amazing than the last — told through lively text and thrilling images.