Monday Fun Fact

 

Pizza!!

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The website "Eat This, Not That!" states that over 2 million pizzas are sold by Pizza Hut during the Super Bowl!  In honor of the KC Chiefs Super Bowl this coming weekend, here are some more interesting pizza facts:

The first pizza is believed to have been created in Naples in the 1500s.  Dough with slices of tomato and cheese made a cheap and low cost meal for families.

Pizza was not popular in the United States until soldiers coming home from overseas brought the idea of pizza back with them after World War II.

A gourmet pizzeria in Italy boasts the most expensive pizza.  It has lobster, buffalo mozzarella, caviar, and pink Australian salt on it.  It costs $12,000!

Wow!!

See you on Friday!

Friday Fun Fact Jan 29

 

Palm Trees

A palm tree is actually considered grass.  Very tall grass, for sure!

A palm tree does not create rings as it grows.

A palm tree does not grow bark.

Therefore, a palm tree is officially a "grass", even though it is tall as a tree.

Shepard Students ShareFun Facts!

Kyra in Ms. Buddemeyer's 4th grade:  An elephant's tooth is the same weight as a bowling ball!"

Have a great weekend!  See you on Monday!

Monday Fun Fact Jan 25

 

Polar Night

image from Medium

A Polar night occurs from when the sun is not visible above the horizon for over 24 hours.  Polar night is the opposite of polar day, when for 24 hours the sun never goes down past the horizon.  Polar nights and polar days only occur at the North and South poles.

Polar nights occur from September - March at the North Pole and from March - September at the South Pole.

Shepard Students ShareFun Facts!

Stanley in Ms. Garman's 3rd grade:  Cockroaches can live without a head for 7 days!

Friday Fun Fact Jan 22

 Glass Art

image from How Stuff Works

Beautiful art vases like those pictured above were created by glass blowing.  In this art, the craftsman blows through a tube to a blob of melted glass on the end.

The melted glass that glassblowers work with is the same hot temperature as lava from a volcano!

Here is a link to a video on glass blowing:

Glass blowing

Have a great weekend!

Monday Fun Fact Jan 18

 Dove Eyelids

Shepard Students Share Fun Facts!

Kyra Smith in Ms Buddemeyer's class shared this fascinating fact:

Doves have see-through eyelids.

Doves have upper and lower eyelids that help protect their eyes and keep the pupils from drying out.  They also have a third eyelid, called a "nictitating membrane" which is semi-transparent.  With this see-through eyelid closed, birds can keep dust out while they fly.

How clever is that?

See you on Friday!

Friday Fun Fact Jan 15

 

Our Green Lady

The Statue of Liberty, given to the United States as a gift from France in 1886, was originally the color of a penny.  

The statue is covered in thin sheets of copper - the material that pennies were made of.  Copper reacts with the air to form a protective covering on the statue to save it from corrosion and degrading.  This makes the statue more long lasting.

This reaction between copper and the air is called "oxidation".

The Statue of Liberty, originally penny-colored, turned green by 1906.

We'll have a great fun fact on Monday sent to me by

 4th grade student Kyra Smith!

Have a great weekend!  See you on Monday!

Monday Fun Fact Jan 11

               Cock-A-Doodle Doo!

image from Off the Grid News

The "cock-a-doodle-doo" of a rooster can hit 100 decibels. If you have a rooster crow in your ear, it can hit 140 decibels - that is very close to shattering an eardrum.

So how do roosters not crow themselves deaf?

Roosters have special "earplugs" when they crow so that they do not go deaf. When a rooster opens its beak fully to crow, it closes off its external auditory canals. This becomes "earplugs" for the rooster.

You can learn more about rooster "earplugs" and watch a video of roosters crowing at:

 https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/roosters-have-special-ears-so-they-dont-crow-themselves-to-deaf

 See you on Friday!