It’s the first Friday of the month, better known here at The Mailbox Blog as “Giveaway Friday”—personally my favorite Friday of the month! It struck me this morning that one of my favorite things about my work (and life in general) is learning new stuff. For examp
le, this week I learned that a chef’s hat with 100 pleats is said to represent the 100 different ways the chef can cook eggs. Get out! I had no idea there was a legend about chef’s hats, pleats, and eggs!
Now about that giveaway—just think how much we could learn if each of us shares a piece of trivia. No pressure—just a fun fact will do. Leave your “Did you know…?” right here at the blog before midnight EDT, Saturday, April 19, and you’ll be automatically entered to win a prize pack of assorted school supplies: pencils, highlighters, markers, glue sticks, and more! Fun! Hey, did you know no two giraffes have the same spotted coat?
Smiles,
Diane
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Did you know the daddy penguins care for their young while the mother goes in search for food? Way to go dads!
Did you know Beverly Cleary’s birthday is next Saturday?
Did you know that butterflies taste with their feet? It’s true!
Did you know if you cut an apple in half across its width, in each half, you will see a five-pointed star.
Did you know that a ‘jiffy’ is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second?
Did you know that, on average, a 4-year-old child asks 437 questions a day?
Did you know that grapes are toxic to most small animals including dogs and cats?
Did you know that black cats are considered bad luck in the United States but good luck in Japan?
Did you know a piece of paper can be folded no more then 9 times?
Did you know if you put an orange in a tub of water it will float, but it you remove its skin it will sink!
Did you know when a frog sheds its skin it pulls the skin over its head, just like people do when they take off a sweater?
Did you know that a polar bear’s fur is white but its skin is black? AND that it can smell food up to two miles away?
Did you know a duck’s quack doesn’t echo?
Did you know that elephants are the only mammals that can’t jump.
Did you know that butterflies eat with their feet?
Did you know 11% of the world is left handed?
Did you know a lions roar can be heard up to 5 miles away??
Did you know that penguins are birds and do not fly?
Did you know that Children begin with an average vocabulary of 200 words at age 2, and typically learnfive new words a day, by the age of 6-years-old will have acquired a 10,000 word vocabulary (the range is from 5,000 to 20,000 words.)
Did you know that after more than 35 years teaching preschool I still treasure a child’s vie of this world!
Did you know that loggerhead turtles are named for its large head.
Did you know that sharks are immune to almost all know disease….
Did you know that coffee isn’t as effective at waking you up in the morning as apples are?
Did you know that there aren’t really black panthers? They are just leopards that are born black.
Did you know that the national average teacher will spend $448.00 of their own money to buy school supplies for their students.
Did you know that most blood pressure medicine is made from the derivatives of snake venom?
Did you know that dogs can hear your heartbeat from five feet away?
Did you know that petting a cat can lower your blood pressure?
Did you know that New York contains 920km (571miles) of shoreline?
Did you know that both eagle parents sit on the nest of eggs and then both take care of the young after they hatch. Nature at its best. The baby eaglets have hatched!!
Did you know that 19 new species of praying mantis were recently identified.
Did you know that kaolas look very cuddly but are actually quite vicious
Did you know that Dachshunds can live an average of 16 to 20 years.
Did you know that bats use echo location to find their food.
Did you know that there is a spider in Australia that eats small mammals and birds.
Did you know that geckos can lose their tails when frightened?
Did you know that male seahorses care for the babies.
Did you know that a cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
Did you know that the shriek of a howler monkey can be heard 100 miles away?
Did you know that zebras bark to warn their herd of predators?
Did you know that grapes explode when you put them in the microwave?!? My first graders do 😉
Did you know that the muscle that lets your eye blink is the fastest muscle in your body. It allows you to blink 5 times a second. On average, you blink 15 000 times a day. That’s about 10 times per minute, or more than five million times a year. Women blink more than men.
Did you know that Saturday mail delivery in Canada was eliminated by Canada Post on February 1, 1969!
Did you know that a shrimp’s heart is in it’s head?
Did you know….
The average human body contains enough bones to make an entire human skeleton?
Did you know…
Due to generations of healthier diet, the average American soldier was several inches taller than the average British soldier at the time of the American Revolution.
Did you know-From fertilization to birth, a baby’s weight increases by 5 billion times.
Did you know that a mother panda is 900 times bigger than her cub at birth?
Did you know it is physically impossible for a pig to look up at the sky?
Did you know today is the day of the mushroom!!!
Did you know that peaches are in the almond family? Crazy!
Did you know the male seahorse carries the baby seahorses and births them as well as cares for them?
Did you know that John Adams and Thomas Jefferson (both authors of the Declaration of Independence) passed away on the same day–July 4th?
Did you know that 11% of people are left handed?
Did you know that a raccoon will wash it’s food before it eats it? They also will not let go of food once it has a hold of it.
Did you know that the average pencil can draw a line 35 miles long, or write about 45,000 words?
Did you know, only one mammal can’t jump — the elephant?
Did you know that a zebra is black with white stripes?
Did you know that a human brain has grown to 80% of it’s final size by age 2?
Did you know that wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times?
Did you know only 37% America’s households recycle……regularly.
Did you know, Mark Twain, one of America’s most loved authors dropped out of school at the age of twelve, after his father died?
Did you know that the Romans were the ones who made the first popsicle?
Did you know that African Elephants have ears shaped like the continent of Africa?
Did you know that Texas blind salamanders find their prey by sensing their movements?
Did you know that hot cross bus are a traditional Easter pastry?
Did you know crocodiles are more aggressive than alligators?
Did you know the Earth travels 1.6 million miles every day?
Did you know 11% of people are left handed
Did you know…rabbits like licorice?
Did you know that spiders are one of the few creatures that don’t ‘lick’ their feet in order to clean/groom?
Did you know that the pattern of your cat’s fur is also the pattern on their skin?
This really shows that there are still folks that value what they post on the web. I actually liked reading through the comments.