Facts of the Week.

[ssraincloud]

haha thats ok i dont blame u. new fact 41% of the moon is not visible from earth at any time.

[CatlassKate]

weird. my favorite planet is pluto.

[ssraincloud]

thats not a planet anymore. new fact the age of the universe is 13.7 billion years. wow thats really old

[ssraincloud]

forgot last weeks so here is 3 new ones. sound travels through water 3 times faster than through air. The largest flower in the world is the corpse flower or Rafflesia. It grows to 4ft wide and it stinks. There are 8 peas per pod on average.

[becca]

wow! i don't think that i am going to try to eat a onion with my nose plugged! i think you guys will just have tell me if it works or not. and i totally want the huge pearl! i should find one and make it a pendant for a necklace! just kidding. i thin my neck would hurt too bad.

[ssraincloud]

ya no kidding. the opposite sides of dice always add up to seven. woodpecker scalps, porpoise teeth, and giraffe tails have all been used as money. sad day

[becca]

that is so sad! and totally gross!

[CatlassKate]

in 6th grade we had to do this thing with the dice and it was difficult.

[ssraincloud]

oh im sorry. ok so here is many many facts there are more than 600 million telephone lines in the world. 20% of all road accidents in Sweden involved a moose. more than 1,000 languages are spoken in africa. if you could drive to the sun at 55 miles per. hour, it would take about 193 years.

[CatlassKate]

and the reason of why there are so many launguages is cuz they are are in isolated groups. human geographers don't even really know what to call a laungage now cuz of how small some groups are . I ACTUALLY PAYED ATTENTION IN GEOGRAPHY!!!!!!!! AND LEARNED SOMETHING!!!