Category: Did You Know?
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Did you know: soap
soaps work because they have portions of their molecules that are fat-soluble and portions that are water-soluble?
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Did you know: ivy growth
ivys change growth form from vine to bush depending on their surrounding environment?
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Did you know: green bark
Aspen (Populus tremuloides) and Palo Verde (Parkinsonia spp.) trees have photosynthetic bark?
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Did you know: Phoenix area
Phoenix is about the same area as the big island of Hawaii?
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Did you know: air-water
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?
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Did you know: sun distance
the sun is about 8.1 light minutes away?
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Did you know: bird temp
birds have an average body temperature just over 100 degrees?
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Did you know: ampersand
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.