Apples float because they are one-quarter air!ġ4. If insects are eating the lima bean's leaves, the plant gives off a substance that acts as a signal to parasitic wasps to swoop in and destroy their enemy (i.e. Lima beans have an amazing ability to command wasps as a defense. Cherries are a member of the rose family ( Rosaceae) as are quince, pears, plums, apples, peaches, and raspberries!ġ2. Carrots weren't always orange: they were once exclusively purple.ġ1. Peanuts aren't nuts! (They're legumes.)ġ0. Pound cake is so-called because the recipes once called for a pound of butter, a pound of sugar, a pound of eggs, and a pound of flour.ĩ. The double coconut palm produced the biggest seed in the world: 45 pounds.ħ. According to Tori Avey, coffee became a popular drink in America after the Boston Tea Party of 1773: Making the switch from tea to coffee was considered a patriotic duty.Ħ. The strawberry is the only fruit that bears seeds on the outside.ĥ. On the South Atlantic island of Tristan da Cunha, potatoes were once used as currency.Ĥ.
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Garlic bulbs are full of Vitamin C, iron, potassium, magnesium, zinc, and more. The world’s longest French fry is 34 inches long.Ģ. Looking for more space facts? Check them out here. There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on Earth. Jupiter's Great Red Spot is a storm that has been raging for over 200 years.Ģ2. One day on Venus is almost 8 months on Earth.Ģ1. Alpha Centauri isn't a star, but a star system. Saturn's rings are made from trillions of chunks of orbiting ice.ġ9. Europa, one of Jupiter's moons, has saltwater geysers that are 20x taller than Mt. In 2011, ten-year-old Kathryn Aurora Gray discovered a supernova (a star that has run out of energy, explodes, and then collapses before it dies) that no one else had seen before.ġ7. The very first animals in space were fruit flies.they were sent up in 1947 and recovered alive.ġ6. The Earth's core is as hot as the surface of the sun.ġ5. Jupiter is the fastest-spinning planet in the solar system (it only takes about 10 hours to complete a full rotation on its axis).ġ4. A neutron star can spin 600 times in one second.ġ2. The footprints on the moon will be there for 100 million years.ġ1. It takes eight minutes and 19 seconds for light to travel from the sun to Earth.ġ0. Ham the Astrochimp was the first hominid in space, launched on Jan. Even in an airplane, a trip to Pluto would take about 800 years.ħ. One million Earths could fit inside the sun!Ħ. Sally Ride was the first American woman to fly in space, on June 18, 1983.ĥ. One teaspoon of a neutron star would weigh six billion tons.Ĥ. The moon is very hot (224 degrees Fahrenheit, average) during the day but very cold (-243 degrees average) at night.Ģ.
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