Tuesday 18 November 2014

Fact Hunters: Space, whales & Brazil!

Katherine Barrett
Venus is the hottest planet in the solar system with a surface temperature of over 450 degrees Celsius!

Leo Mbata
The Bark Spider of Madagascar can spin webs that span 25 metres!

Ethan Borrell
Were you aware that Black holes are the cold remnants of former stars, so dense that no matter—not even light—is able to escape their powerful gravitational pull.

Lucy Lockhart
The Beluga whale is able to swim backwards and Californian sea lions are able to stay submerged for up to 10mins!

Chloe Wager & Terrika Wright
Did you know that towards the end of his life Adolf Hitler followed a vegetarian diet? No one is sure when he adopted it, because it would appear that prior to the Second World War he still consumed meat.

Skaiste Burinskaite
Incredibly Brazil–Portugal relations have been in place for over four centuries. They began in1532 with the establishment of São Vicente, the first Portuguese permanent settlement in the Americas, up to the present day.


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