Monday 30 November 2015

Fact Hunters: Blinking and salt!

Charlie Matthams
Two Big Berthas were captured by the US Army at the end of the war. One was taken to the United States and evaluated at the Aberdeen Proving Ground. The gun was later placed on display at the United States Army Ordnance Museum.

Kimberley Stewart
Why do we blink? We blink to keep our eyes moisturized and to prevent our eyes drying out.

Ayomide Otegbola
Suprisingly, salt gets into the sea through erosion. Rainwater dissolves minerals in the soil and rock that it passes through, carrying them until it reaches a stream or river. Eventually this water will flow into the sea taking with it the dissolved minerals, or salts.

Charlie Matthams
Did you know that a duck billed platypus doesn’t have any teeth? Instead it uses gravel to help chew its food!

Plamen Vasilev
Incredibly the bar headed goose (Anser Indicus) can fly higher than Mount Everest. It is found in South Asia and is monotypic (both males and females look the same). The bird copes with low oxygen by hyperventilating 7.2 times faster than it does at sea level.

Samanyu Handoo
Did you know that the drnking of tea probably originated in southwest China during the Shang dynasty as a medicinal drink?  An early credible record of tea drinking dates to the 3rd century AD, in a medical text written by Hua Tuo!



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