Mythology Quiz

Venus has the longest day of any planet in our solar system. It completes one rotation every 243 Earth days. Its day lasts longer than its orbit. It orbits the Sun every 224.65 Earth days, so a day is nearly 20 Earth days longer than its year.

The earliest microscopes were called flea glasses because they were predominantly used to observe small insects such as fleas! These microscopes were simple in construction, using different shapes and sizes of glass with low power (6x to 10x). They were invented by the Romans.

The arrival of autumn affects some animals in some pretty interesting ways. Take the black-capped chickadee, for example. When autumn arrives, the bird goes crazy, collecting seeds and hiding them in hundreds of different places. The bird’s hippocampus (a part of the brain) grows by up to 30 percent, as new nerve cells responsible for spatial memory and organization form!