Take a brand-new pencil and draw a line without stopping until the pencil was so small you couldn’t hold it, the line would be 35 miles long
If you shout to a friend underwater, he’ll hear you faster than on land. Sound travels four times faster in water than in air.
Marshmallows used to be made from roots of a plant called a marsh mallow that grew in marshes. Now marshmallows are made from sugar.
The smallest dinosaur ever was the Compsognathus, which was about the size of a chicken. (Chickensognathus?)
Howler monkeys, which live in Central and South America, hang out together howling so loudly they can be heard from three miles away.
