Math can be downright interesting! For example, most mathematical equations were written in words before the 16th century! Could you imagine what that must have looked like?!
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Earth’s biggest mountain ranges aren’t easy to spot – because they are at the bottom of the ocean! The Mid-Ocean-Ridge wraps around the entire planet and is a staggering 65,000 kilometres long!
If you like fish, think about this! Farm-raised salmon is usually white, so salmon farmers add carotenoids, a type of plant pigment, to the fish feed to produce the natural pink color that wild salmon exhibit.
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.
Fact Lab
Earth’s biggest mountain ranges aren’t easy to spot – because they are at the bottom of the ocean! The Mid-Ocean-Ridge wraps around the entire planet and is a staggering 65,000 kilometres long!
If you like fish, think about this! Farm-raised salmon is usually white, so salmon farmers add carotenoids, a type of plant pigment, to the fish feed to produce the natural pink color that wild salmon exhibit.
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.
Did you know that parents are now paying for coaches by the hour to improve their children’s Fortnite techniques? People are literally being paid to coach young children on how to take down fools online. One parent had this to say: "There's pressure not to just play it but to be really good at it. You can imagine what that was like for him at school." Kids’ll be taking Fortnite lessons in place of piano lessons in the near future!