Did You Know?

      Did you know that strollers used to be pulled by goats or other small animals? The mother did not push them like they do now. As you can see in the picture, they used to look like carriages, which were what people used as transportation before cars.

This is kind of a short one but it might make you think a little. Did you know that before the number a thousand, no number has the letter a. Watch this if you don't believe me: https://youtu.be/1R8yjPez9RU.

      Dust is in everybody's house; whether in clean houses, dirty houses, new houses, or old houses. If you didn't know already, dust is made up of  small pieces of matter. The matter can be many things: hair, bugs, lint, dirt, pieces of clothing and many more. But dust is mainly composed of skin cells. If you are wondering how skin cells got in your dust, I am about to tell you.        Deep underneath your skin, new cells are being created.  These new cells get pushed up to the surface of your skin. This is called desquamation process. When the new cells get pushed, the old skin flakes off and gets replaced with new skin. Your body sheds 30,000 to 40,000 skin cells a day. So, while you are in your house, skin cells fall and get mixed in with all the other pieces of matter scattered on the ground. This creates dust.

 Fact #1: Even though they can't get up and start break dancing, babies can responding to music. They move to the rhythm and tempo of the music. Here is a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-Eg4kIhWRY Fact #2: As most people know, the average adult human body has 206 bones. But babies are born with 300. These extra bones fuse together over time and become the skeleton that we are most familiar with. Fact #3: The reason why babies need to be fed so often is because of how small their stomachs are. The average babies stomach is the size of a walnut. 

    The brain is the most important organ in every living creatures' body. It is the control system that send messages to different parts of your body. https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org explains what the brain does: ''controls thought, memory, emotion, touch, motor skills, vision, breathing, temperature, hunger, and every process that regulates our body."    Since the brain does so much, I thought it would be interesting to look at 3 cool facts about it. Fact 1: Our brains are always on the job. When people say that you only use 10 percent of your brain, it is actually a myth. Our brains never stop working; even while we are sleeping.  Fact 2: When you zone out, your brain goes into an autopilot mode. It does this because it recognizes that we can complete the task at hand without thinking hard about it. Fact 3: When we read, different parts of our brains activate. One part analyzes meaning, and the other recognizes words automatically. 

 Art Fact #1: The heads of the Roman statues were detachable so they could be interchangeable.  Fact 2: Vincent van Gogh made two starry nights;   The first is the one we all know:  The second one is called Starry Night Over the Rhone. This is what it looks like: Fact #3: It is a common myth for people to think that Michelangelo painted the Sistine Chapel while lying down, but he actually painted it while standing up. He stood on a scaffold that he made himself. Fact #4: The Easter Island Heads actually have bodies! The bodies are buried beneath the ground and are hidden from view. Fact #5: The American Gothic is actually a portrait of a father and a daughter, not a wife and a husband.