Did you know – Unbelievable Amazing facts
It was the Romans who made the first popsicle. They took some ice and added flavour to it and then licked it. What a great idea! Yummy !
The Sumerians, who lived in the Middle East, invented the wheel in about 3450 BC.
The Sumerians also invented writing.
Did you know it was the Chinese who made the first wheelbarrow?
The blue whale is the largest animal on earth. The heart of a blue whale is as big as a car, and it’s tongue is as long as an elephant.
Did you know there are two kinds of pandas? There is the Long-tailed Himalayan carnivore that looks like a raccoon and there is the Giant panda bear that lives in Western China.
The fastest human swimmer can swim at 6 miles per hour. The fastest mammal – the dolphin – can swim up to 35 miles per hour.
The smallest bird in the world is the Hummingbird. It weighs 1oz.
Did you know fishes talk to each other? Some of them communicate by making noises in their throats by rasping their teeth, others use their swim bladders to make sounds
Did you know the first bicycle that was made in 1817 by Baron von Drais didn’t have any pedals? People walked it along
Did you know the first toy balloon, made of vulcanized rubber, was thought of by someone in the J.G.Ingram company in London, England in 1847.
A cat can run about 20 kilometres per hour (12 miles per hour) when it grows up. This one is going nowhere today – it is too lazy !.
The largest frog in the world is called Goliath frog. Frogs start their lives as ‘eggs’ often laid in or near fresh water. Frogs live on all continents except Antarctica. Frogs belong to a group of animals called amphibians.
There are more than 50 different kinds of kangaroos. Kangaroos are native of Australia. A group of kangaroos is called a mob. Young kangaroos are called joeys.
Some scientists believe that the earth began billions of years ago as a huge ball of swirling dust and gases. If you dig in your backyard, don’t worry about running into the earth’s core. You’d have to dig a hole 4,000 miles (6,437 kilometers) deep!
