Category: Facts For Kids
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Amazon Rainforests
Remember reading about the largest river in the world – The enormous amazon in South America. Why is it so large? One of the big reason is its location – right at the equator where it rains almost everyday! Hmm Lots of rain, a big river and a fertile land around it are perfect for…
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Why Tickling makes You Laugh?
Have you ever wondered why is it that whenever some one tickles you, you burst into bouts of laughter but you can never tickle yourself? First of all, let us see why we feel like laughing. All of us have some funny spots on our bodies and they are not difficult to find. So if someone…
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Juiciest Summer Fruit
There are no points for guessing that we are talking about Watermelons!! The crunchy juicy fruit is almost all water and little sugar. Many people believe that though it is refreshing, it is not very nutritious. But this is not true. Like many other fruits it is a very good source of vitamin A and…
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Firefly Squid
Firefly squid? Is it a firefly or a squid? This is the firefly squid, also called the sparkling enope squid. The firefly squid gets its name from the flashing lights that resemble those of a firefly. How does the squid get all that light? Is it plugged in:) It actually gets all that light from special light-producing…
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Cheeza Pizza
Where was the first pizza made? Italy is what you may say for the answer. But did you know that ancient Greeks used to eat something similar, back in 600 BC. Naples in 600 BC was a Greek settlement. A lot of people used to eat a flat bread topped with tomatoes, cheese, olive oil, anchovies and garlic. These ingredients were…
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Monkey Trouble
Once there lived a monkey, in a jungle, who was always unhappy because he thought that others were better than him. No matter how many times his parents told him that he was a special monkey he was still sad. One day he was playing with his friends in a cave when he found a magic lamp.…
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Fairy Floss or Cotton Candy
There is a very cute fairy tale about how “fairy floss”, was made. There was once a little pink fairy in the fairyland that just could not stop running once she started. Once her mother was making a sweet and she put sugar on a hot plate. The little fairy was very impatient and she could…
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Are Jugglers Magicians?
Jugglers? We are talking about people who have many balls in their hands, throw it up in the air, catch it and then toss it again in the air only to catch it again. And they are not magicians. They ‘toss and catch’ so quickly that you might begin to think that they are magicians. Jugglers learn…
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Our Tallest friend – Hyperion Tree
Meet Hyperion, that is the name of our tallest living friend. It is the tallest living thing on earth. This tall redwood is named Hyperion after a Greek God of beauty. He is 379.1 feet tall! It was found almost 6 years ago in 2006 by naturalists Chris Atkins and Michael Taylor at a Redwood National Park. The tree…
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What is a Galaxy?
“Our solar system is a part of milky way”… Have you ever heard someone saying this? And then have you wondered what Milky Way is? Solar system is of-course, the group of Sun and all the other nine planets. Milky Way is a galaxy. Hmmm again confused? What is a galaxy? You might think that all the…
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What is a Gold Rush?
Have you ever heard about the gold rush ? Ever wondered what it is? A gold rush was a time when thousands of people migrated to places that reported of gold deposits. Wow! Most of the major gold rushes took place in 19th and early 20th centuries. Gold rushes were always filled with excitement as a lot of people thought…
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Vital Vitamins
Ha Ha! That’s a good one!! But I also know the real reason that makes carrots good for eyes. Carrots provide our body with an essential vitamin A. Vitamins are substances that are needed by the body for proper development. There are not one or two but many vitamins that our body needs daily. Let us…