1. Blue for a boy! The colour blue was associated with the heavenly spirits and so boys were clothed in that colour, boys then being considered the most valuable resource to parents!
2. The Earth is slowing down – in a few million years there won’t be a leap year.
3. The Great Comet, which appeared in 1843, had a tail that was 350 million km long. It will return in 2356.
4. The oldest inhabited city is Damascus in Syria.
5. The study of oceans – Oceanography – is a mixture of Biology, Physics, Geology and Chemistry.
6. The pleasant feeling of eating chocolate is cause by a chemical called anadamide, a neurotransmitter that is also produced naturally in the brain.
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