Weird But True
By National Geographic Society
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Description
★ New York Times App to Keep Kids Happy ★ Chosen as New & Noteworthy, What’s Hot, and Staff Favorites by Apple
National Geographic’s Weird But True app is presented by Disney XD.
Newly updated with rich and engaging sound effects for all 300 facts (Find out how to pronounce the official name of Bangkok, Thailand—it has 167 letters!). Now you can share facts with friends and family via Facebook and Twitter with the touch of a finger. Plus, more fun sound effects for the Weird-o-Meter and other surprises!
Did you know that girls have more taste buds than boys do? Or that slugs have 3,000 teeth and 4 noses? And who knew that gorillas burp when they’re happy? Get more than 300 Weird But True kid-friendly facts with the new interactive app from National Geographic Kids!
Based on the phenomenally popular department in National Geographic Kids magazine and best-selling book franchise, Weird But True is now available for iPod touch, iPhone, and iPad!
-Swipe to move from fact to fact or shake the device to see a random fact.
-Use the Weird-O-Meter to rate the level of “weirdness” for each fact and monitor results from all users on the Weirdest Facts list!
-Bookmark your favorites or share the grossest facts with your friends via email, Facebook, and Twitter.
-Use the Fact Finder to locate facts about your favorite subjects—animals, weather, space, science, and more!
-Loaded with sound effects and awesome surprises, Weird But True is fun for kids of all ages!
Filled with wacky facts and tantalizing trivia that will engage curious kids and parents alike, Weird But True presents each of the 300 facts in a fun, colorful, and interactive format that will keep kids entertained—and learning—for hours! And parents can rest easy knowing that each fact is age-appropriate and handpicked by a brand they know and trust: National Geographic Kids.
About National Geographic Kids
National Geographic Kids inspires young adventurers to explore the world through award-winning magazines, books, apps, games, toys, television series, events and a website and is the only kids brand with a world-class scientific organization at its core. National Geographic Kids (10 issues per year) and Little Kids (6 issues per year) are photo-driven publications and are available on newsstands or by subscription in print and on tablets. The award-winning website kids.nationalgeographic.com excites kids about the planet through games, videos, contests, photos, quizzes, and blogs about cultures, animals and destinations. National Geographic Kids Books publishes as many as 100 nonfiction titles each year and teaches the youngest readers why the world is a weird, fascinating and fun place.
What's New in Version 1.1
· Integration with Facebook and Twitter
· More fun sound effects
· Disney sponsorship
· Minor bug fixes
Customer Reviews
Good app, but doing it wrong with the ads
This is a neat app and my kids really enjoy it, but I'm disappointed that they decided to add advertisments in an update. In my opinion if you're going to add advertising to support your app, it should be in a separate version that's either cheap or free. When you do it in an update, you force everyone who payed full price to either update and get the ads with no benefit to them, or not update and have it sitting there on their update screen forever.
Lots of Fun!
Wow, tons of really cool facts! I like to use this app while commuting on the bus/train to relax. $1.99 its worth it to me!
You pay to get tv commercials embedded in a bunch of trivia
So not cool. Every few "facts" are actually a commercial for some kids tv program. So not cool.
- $0.99
- Category: Books
- Updated: Jan 27, 2012
- Version: 1.1
- Size: 75.6 MB
- Languages: English, Basque, Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese
- Seller: National Geographic Society
- © National Geographic Society
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.Requires iOS 4.0 or later.
