Classmate Facts # 73 - Particulars & Details!

1. An adult porcupine has approximately 30,000 quills on its body which are replaced every year.

2. The longest words that are reversed images of each other are Stressed and Desserts.

3. Among all shapes with the same perimeter a circle has the largest area.

4. The earliest gold jewellery dates from the Sumer civilisation between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in Southern Iraq around 3000 B.C.

5. The world's smallest mammal is the Bumblebee bat of Thailand, weighing less than a penny.

6. The general agreement seems to be that the origin of the word "Bonfire" was from bonefire, a fire in which bones were burnt.