The Encyclopedia of Weird

From A to Z and everything in between, here's a page-turning, eyebrow-raising head-shaking collection of "too-werid-to-be-true" facts.

For instance. Turkey vultures are big meat-eaters. But they hate to kill. Instead, they feast on succulent leftovers...like roadkill! Potent stomach acids help them digest the "ripe" meat. Yum....

The longest worm in the world measure as astounding 180 feet long!

A man in Minnesota claims to have wound the world's largest twine ball: it's more than twelve feet around and weighs more than 21,000 pounds!

Sheila De La Rosa is a freelance editor who has written for Disney Adventures magazine. She is the author of Ghost Files: Creepy...But True? in addition to Encyclopedia of the Weird.