Classmate Facts # 37 - Facts Galore!

1. The longest bone is the "Femur", in the thigh. It makes up almost one quarter of the body's total height.

2. A male emperor moth can find a female of his species a mile away.

3. Owls are one of the only birds that can see the color blue!

4. The Pacific Ocean was named by Magellan because it was calmer than the Atlantic!

5. A strand of Spider Web may be stronger than an equal diameter of Steel.

6. Skin is thickest, 1/5th inch, on the upper back. It is thinnest on the eyelids, which are only 1/50th inch thick.

Classmate Facts # 36 - FAST Facts!

1. The ears and nose do not have bones inside them. Their inner supports are cartilage or 'gristle', which is lighter and more flexible than bone. This is why the nose and ears can be bent.

2. Did you know that a tuna called the 'Blue Fin' tuna can be sold for over $20,000 around the world?

3. Laid end-to-end, the arteries, capillaries and veins would stretch for about 60,000 miles in the average child would be about 100,000 miles in an adult - enough to wrap around the world nearly four times!

4. A volcano can shoot its debris as high as 50 km into the sky.

5. We lose half a litre of water a day through breathing.

6. It has been calculated that a single breath from a mature whale can inflate up to 2000 balloons.

Classmate Facts # 35 - Twisted Tongues

1. All the coal, oil, gas and wood on Earth would only keep the sun burning for a few days.

2. There is a flower called the Scarlet Pimpernal that can forecast the weather. If the flower is closed up, rain is coming and if it is opened up, the day will be sunny.

3. The "Sixth Sick Sheikh's Sixth Sheep's Sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English Language.

4. Your skin weighs about 3.2 kg.

5. The telescope on Mount Palomar, California, can see a distance of 7,038,835,200,000,000,000,000 miles.

6. The smallest bone is the "Stirrup", deep in the ear. It is hardly larger than a grain of rice.

Classmate Facts # 34 - Facts are Fun!

1. According to Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity, it is possible to go slower than the speed of light and faster than light, but it is impossible to go at the speed of light.

2. The Holland and Lincoln tunnels under the Hudson Power connecting New Jersey and New York are an engineering feat. The air circulators in the tunnels circulate fresh air completely every 90 seconds.

3. The giant red star Betelgeuse has a diameter larger than that of the Earth;s orbit around the sun.

4. In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10 because then the arms frame the brand of the watch.

5. The Mongol emperor Genghis Khan's original name was Temujin. Genghis Khan started out life as a goatherd.

6. Some words which have no singular form are: alms, braces, clothes, eaves, pants, pliers, scissors, shorts, trousers.

Classmate Facts # 33 - A Country with Three Capitals??

1. South Africa is the only country with three official capitals: Pretoria, Cape Town and Bloemfontein.

2. In the great fire of London in 1666 half of London was burnt down but only 6 people were injured.

3. The shortest word with the vowels in alphabetical order is "Aerious" (7 letters).

4. The earliest document in Latin in a woman's handwriting (from the first century A.D.) is an invitation to a birthday party.

5. There are only three animals with blue tongues, The Black Bear, The Chow Chow Dog and the Blue Tongued Lizard.

6. The volume of the Earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean.

Classmate Facts # 32 - Food for Thought!

1. Ever eaten a black cow? It's chocolate soda with chocolate ice cream! Did you know that this concoction is also called the "Mud Fizz"!

2. There are more than 200 kinds of chili peppers, none of which belong to the pepper family.

3. Termites are roasted and eaten by the handful in South Africa, like popcorn!

4. The secret recipe for Coca-Cola, code-named "Merchandise X" is kept under lock and key in a vault in the SunTrust Bank Building in Atlanta, Georgia.

5. John Kellog invented Corn Flakes, for a patient with Bad Teeth!

6. Carbonated water, can dissolve limestone, talc and many low hardness minerals. And guess what? Carbonated Water is the main ingredient in Soda.

Classmate Facts # 31 - Facts and Figures...

1. People born in the month of September are believed to be able to chink clearly and logically!

2. The strongest creatures in the world are ants! For their size, they can carry 50 times their weight!

3. A sneeze travels out of our mouths at 100 mph!

4. Cannibals began to eat other human beings as part of religious rituals or sacred ceremonies. They believed they could acquire the traits of a man they admired by eating him!

5. Plastic surgery was practised by the Ancieent Hindus in India before 1000 A.D. They worked with steel surgical instruments and used alcohol as an anesthetic!