How Far Can a Pencil Draw? Get Your Answer and Win This Book

 

What’s your guess? A mile? Ten miles? The answer is… 35 miles! I Can’t Believe It: The Most Amazing Facts About Our Incredible World is packed with fascinating facts. Best of all, you could win a copy!

How? Submit any bit of trivia to this blog by 11:59 pm EDT on August 1, 2017. One lucky teacher will be randomly selected to win.

 

Moving on to other interesting things, here are a few freebies that I found fascinating this week:

It’s National Watermelon Month. Enter the #UseTheWholeWatermelon recipe contest for a chance to win $500. Get the scoop at watermelon.org/recipecontest.

 

The eclipse is coming, the eclipse is coming! On Monday, August 21, all of North America will be treated to an eclipse. See the countdown, get activities, and trace the path at eclipse2017.nasa.gov.

 

Really Good Stuff is celebrating its 25th anniversary. Visit reallygoodstuff.com/summergiveaway for a chance to win an iPad Mini, Starbucks gift card, MacBook Air, Visa gift card, Really Good Stuff merchandise, and more. Enter now.

 

 

Did you know that the moon is almost as wide as Australia? The world’s longest subway is in Seoul, South Korea? The International Space Station is the most expensive object ever built?

Help me, please; I just can’t stop reading this book. Enter our sweepstakes and take it off my hands!

Karen

15 thoughts on “How Far Can a Pencil Draw? Get Your Answer and Win This Book

  1. Did you know…. Popsicles were invented by an 11 year old??
    This shows you that you’re never too young to invent something!

  2. The word “Sahara” literally means “desert” so if you’re calling it the “Sahara Desert”, then you’re actually saying “Desert Desert”.

  3. Do you know that all humans have two lungs but one has three parts and one only has two parts? Which one has 3?

  4. Did you know that astronauts are not really floating in space? They appear to be floating but are actually falling, due to gravity.

  5. The authors of Curious George pedaled the manuscripts for their book out of Paris on a bicycle not long before the Nazis invaded.

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