Did you know that ‘Celts’ is a modern name used to describe all the people living in the Iron Age.
Dylan Howell
Amazingly there are just 71 words in the English language where the letter ‘q’ is not followed by a ‘u’. Of these 71, 67 are words that are said to be loaned from other languages.
Emma Groom
Did you know that nicotine reaches the brain within 10 seconds of the smoke from a cigarette being inhaled.
Conner Holloway
Incredibly the whale shark – which is found in tropical and warm oceans – has a lifespan which can exceed 70 years!
Harry Brown
A moths antennae, palps, legs and many other parts of the body are studded with sense receptors that are used to smell; as a result pheromones released by females can be detected by the males from as much as 8 kilometres away!
Skaiste Burinskaite
When smoke is blown into a bee hive first, the guard bees' receptors are dulled and they fail to sound the pheromonious alarm. The smoke has a secondary effect making the bees instinctively gorge on honey. This helps to pacify them.
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