{"id":1371,"date":"2022-09-30T05:50:42","date_gmt":"2022-09-30T12:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/?p=1371"},"modified":"2022-09-29T15:29:41","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T22:29:41","slug":"gross-factopia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/gross-factopia\/","title":{"rendered":"Gross FACTopia!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nGross FACTopia!: Follow the Trail of 400 Foul Facts<\/em>
\nby Paige Towler (Author) and Andy Smith (Illustrator)
\n@ Amazon<\/a> | Bookshop<\/a> | IndieBound<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Booktalk:<\/strong> Discover facts about smelly sports, weird world records, rank rodents, vile Victorians, horrible medicine, gory gastronomy, and more! Every fact is linked to the next in a trail of information that guides readers through the book.<\/em><\/p>\n

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It’s STEM Friday!<\/a> (STEM<\/strong> is S<\/strong>cience, T<\/strong>echnology, E<\/strong>ngineering, and M<\/strong>athematics)<\/p>\n

Copyright \u00a9 2022 Anastasia Suen<\/a> All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gross FACTopia!: Follow the Trail of 400 Foul Facts by Paige Towler (Author) and Andy Smith (Illustrator) @ Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound Booktalk: Discover facts about smelly sports, weird world records, rank rodents, vile Victorians, horrible medicine, gory gastronomy, and more! Every fact is linked to the next in a trail of information that … <\/p>\n

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