What do you know about comets? Here are some fun facts about these objects flying around the Earth. Comets appear in the sky like streaks because they’re actively melting. The core of a comet is called the comet nucleus and can be several kilometers wide, like the size of a small town. Comets are composed …
What do you know about summer plants? Did you know some orchids smell like different foods? Apples, peaches, pears, cherries, raspberries, strawberries and more are part of the rosaceae family. Evidence that grapes were grown about 8,000 years ago in Mesopotamia, or today’s Iraq, and that’s where the first of the wine was made. Talking …
What do you know about the red planet? Do you know that no human has ever stepped foot on the planet Mars? Hellas Planitia is a huge crater on Mars located on the Red Planet’s southern hemisphere. It’s over 3.7 miles deep and 1.242 miles across. One of the most distinctive features of Mars is …
These fun facts about gardening may shock you. Like did you know that rhubarb is a vegetable? Did you know that vanilla and corn have something in common? The vanilla flavoring comes from an orchid pod called Vanilla planifolia. The pods are called vanilla beans but in reality they are more closely related to corn …
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The elephant is the largest land mammal and that means big numbers for everything else, too. Nutrition and food for an elephant comes in the form of grass, shrubs, leaves, fruits, roots, twigs, branches and tree bark. It all depends on the season and the habitat. The trunk of an elephant weighs about 300 pounds. …
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These fun facts about Mars may surprise you. You’ll have to let me know which fun facts surprised you! A Martian day is called a sol. The southern hemisphere of Mars has lots of highland as well as lots of craters. Mars’s gravity is only about 38% as much as Earth’s. Mars is the second …
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What do you know about these rainbow fun facts? Did you know Earth is the only planet that experiences rainbows? The shape of a rainbow isn’t an arc, but instead a full circle. From the ground, we only see a semi-circle. You’ll sometimes see a double rainbow, also called a secondary rainbow. A double rainbow …
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The world is such a wide and fascinating place. You often hear people bitten by the travel bug bemoaning how they feel like they’ll never get to see all of it. If you’re one of these people, you can relax a little. Yes, you may never see all of the world, but that’s because you …
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These Chicago fun facts are interesting and full of history. What’s the coolest thing you know about Chicago? The Chicago River flows backwards (and sometimes it’s green.) The Chicago River was redirected into the Mississippi to prevent contamination of Lake Michigan, making it the only river in the world that flows backwards. Oh and the …
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You don’t have to have been to these amazing National Parks to know more about them. But you should try to go, of course, to see them in real life. Zion National Park Translated from Hebrew, the word “Zion” translates to a place of peace and relaxation. Voyageurs National Park This national park has had …
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