Category: Did You Know?

Did you know: Phoenix area

Post author By Gered Ryan
Post date August 31, 2016

Phoenix is about the same area as the big island of Hawaii?

Did you know: air-water

Post author By Gered Ryan
Post date August 23, 2016

there is enough water in the air that it could fill 1 gallon buckets stretching back and forth from the earth to the sun 57 times?

Did you know: sun distance

Post author By Gered Ryan
Post date August 17, 2016

the sun is about 8.1 light minutes away?

Did you know: bird temp

Post author By Gered Ryan
Post date August 13, 2016

birds have an average body temperature just over 100 degrees?

Did you know: ampersand

Post author By Gered Ryan
Post date August 9, 2016

the ampersand (&) is a fancy way of writing the word “and” (et) in Latin? The e is the top loop and the down-stroke. The t is the bottom loop and the down-stroke.

Did you know: fire water

Post author By Gered Ryan
Post date August 2, 2016

fires produce water? Combustion of hydrocarbons, the Hindenburg, etc.

Did you know: Sarah Brightman

Post author By Gered Ryan
Post date July 28, 2016

the name ascribed to Sarah Brightman in Chinese translates as “Salad”?

Did you know: Honey

Post author By Gered Ryan
Post date July 27, 2016

the word for honey is the same in Latin and Hawaiian? Mel