Countries of the World

Yes, squirrels do get smarter in Autumn! Those cute critters bury their nuts and seeds in hundreds of scattered crevices which serve as emergency feeds in the winter months. A typical squirrel shows a 15% increase in the size of its memory and emotional centre of the brain.

The Gateway Arch, nestled along the west bank of the Mississippi River in St. Louis, Missouri, stands as not only the tallest monument in the U.S. at 630 feet tall, but as the tallest man-made monument in the Western Hemisphere. The monument is often called the 'Gateway to the West', as the Mississippi River served as the dividing line between east and west back in the olden days.

The inventor of Life Savers, Clarence Crane, got the idea of making them round rather than square (which was the most common shape of candy at the time) after she visited a pharmacy and watched how pills were cut into small round shapes.