Can you really hear the sea in a seashell?
You are hearing ordinary sounds echoing and re-echoing as the air inside the shell vibrates. Another roaring sound is the amplified sound of the blood rushing through your own ear.
GOOD MANNERS…!!!
In Tibet it is good manners to stick your tongue out at guests.
If you invite an Arab family to dine with you, do not be surprised if they burp loudly after the meal. They are only being polite and showing you how much they enjoyed the food.
The world’s largest tree
The most massive tree in the world is a giant sequoia. It grows in sequoia national park in California and is 84m (276ft) tall. Its trunk is about 8m (26ft) in diameter (measured through the center) large enough to drive a road through if a hole were carve into it.
ANTARTICA
Antarctica is covered with ice which on average is 2000m thick. You could sink Ben Nevis (Britain’s highest mountain) in it and still have 657m of ice spare.
Is a sponge a plant or an animal?
A sponge is one of the simplest forms of animal life. It feeds by drawing in water through its pores and extracting food. We use the dead skeleton of a sponge to use within the bath.
The red sea and the Dead Sea…
The red sea owes its name to algae that gives a red tinge to the water.
Dead Sea is a lake 369m below sea level on the Israel/Jordan border. The water is seven times more salty than the sea water. No fish can live in this water and swimmers float, but cannot sink.
