Spot the Difference

As mentioned earlier, there are many different Halloween traditions around the globe. Some involve candy, and some others involve...peeling apples. In Scotland, there is an old tradition of apple peeling at Halloween. You take an apple and peel off the skin in one piece. This piece is then thrown over the shoulder – the letter it resembles is the initial of your future spouse!

Thirty percent of children under two have TV’s in their bedrooms and 59% of them watch at least two hours of it! TV doesn’t give young viewers many cognitive benefits, in fact, it is even said to impair crucial brain development because children are not interacting with people or developing important social skills.

Hundreds of years ago, Robert Hooke published a book called Micrographia that included hand-drawn images of samples observed under a microscope! Hooke, who we mentioned in a previous fact, is often credited as the discoverer of cells, after studying cork under the microscope.