Fascinating Facts for Young Explorers

By SAMUEL DAVID

If you are looking for a fascinating and interesting facts and an engaging material to develop your young talents and also engage them during travel, family and friends gatherings then this book can serve the purpose for you.

This contains 1700 + interesting facts under 38 Categories starting from Amazing animals to Strange insects to Mysteries of Human body to Wonders of space to Incredible achievements to Creative inventions by kids and everything in between

In this book, You will enjoy with lot of unknown and interesting facts with some of the questions for the facts listed below

Do you know what were the First words spoken in Telephone ?

Do you know how long Giraffes tongues can come out to reach high branches ?

Do you know how many times an average person blinks a day ?

Do you know average heart beats in a human lifespan ?

Do you know the fastest wind speed in Neptune?

Do you know how many Muscles in Elephant trunk ?

Do you know when was the first Dinosaur Eggs discovered?

Do you know about a flower which can reach a diameter of up to 3 feet?

Do you know how many litres of salivia is produced by humans each day?

Have you ever heard about Monkey Buffet Festival?

Do you know where the majority of world's active and dormat volcanoes located?

Do you know the age of the kid who invented water purifier?

Do you know the age of the kid who invented printer for visually impaired people?

Do you how many islands and reefs in Great Barrier reef ?

Do you the weight of the largest brain of an African Elephant ?

Do you know the only insect that can produce food which can be consumed by Humans?

Do you know about a unusual job called "professional sleeper"?

Do you know about the first recognized video game?

Do you know the largest desert covered with ice ?

Do you know how many patents held by Thomas Edison?

Do you know about Hanging Monastery in China ?

Do you know recycling one ton of paper can save how many trees and how much litres of water and oil ?

Do you know the fastest bird which can reach 240 mph during a dive?

Do you know the size of the bird which is only 2 inches?

 

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• Language: English
• Publisher: SAMUEL DAVID
• Release date: Mar 17, 2024
• ISBN: 9798224494361

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THE WONDERS OF SPACE

The Sun is so big that you could fit more than a million Earths inside it!

Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun but it doesn't have an atmosphere to trap heat thereby making it super hot during the day and freezing at night.

Venus spins in the opposite direction to most planets causing the Sun to rise in the west and set in the east. Earth is the only planet known to have life and it's just the right distance from the Sun which is neither too hot nor too cold.

Mars is often called the Red Planet because of its rusty color caused by iron oxide or rust on its surface.

Jupiter is the largest planet in our solar system and it has a massive storm called the Great Red Spot that's been raging for centuries.

Saturn's beautiful rings are made up of ice particles and some of them are as small as grains of sand.

Uranus is a unique planet because it rotates on its side rolling along almost like a barrel as it orbits the Sun.

Neptune has the fastest winds in the solar system reaching speeds of over 1,200 miles per hour!

Pluto used to be considered the ninth planet but it was reclassified as a dwarf planet in 2006.

The Moon is not a planet; It's Earth's natural satellite and it's the only place beyond Earth where humans have walked.

Hubble Space Telescope has captured amazing pictures of distant galaxies which helps scientists learn more about the universe.

Stars twinkle because Earth's atmosphere bends the light they emit creating the illusion of twinkling.

North Star or Polaris is a special star that stays almost stationary in the sky and has helped sailors navigate for centuries.

A light-year is a unit of distance and it's the distance that light travels in one year. It's about 5.88 trillion miles!

The Milky Way is our home galaxy and it contains billions of stars including our Sun.

Galaxies come in different shapes including spirals, ellipses and irregular shapes.

Andromeda Galaxy is on a collision course with the Milky Way but don't worry it won't happen for billions of years.

Black holes are mysterious objects in space with gravity so strong that nothing not even light can escape them.

A shooting star is not a star at all but a tiny meteoroid burning up as it enters Earth's atmosphere.

Comets are like icy, dirty snowballs that orbit the Sun and their tails always point away from the Sun.

The Big Dipper is not a constellation but part of Ursa Major the Great Bear and it's visible in the northern sky.

The Kuiper Belt is a region in the outer solar system where many comets come from.

Astronauts float in space because there is no gravity to pull them down.

International Space Station (ISS) is like a space home where astronauts live and work.

Space is not completely empty. It contains tiny particles called space dust.

The first living being in space was a dog named Laika who orbited Earth in 1957.

The largest volcano in our solar system is on Mars and is called Olympus Mons.

A day on Venus is longer than a year. It takes about 243 Earth days for Venus to complete one rotation.

Great Barrier Reef on Earth is so large that it can be seen from space.

Biggest canyon in our solar system is Valles Mariners on Mars - it's much larger than the Grand Canyon on Earth. Closest galaxy to us is the Andromeda Galaxy which is about 2.5 million light-years away.

Some stars are so small and faint that they are called brown dwarfs instead of stars.

Sun is a giant ball of hot glowing gas mostly made up of hydrogen and helium.

The word astronaut means star sailor in Greek.

The largest volcano on Earth is Mauna Loa in Hawaii and it's underwater volcano

The Great Red Spot on Jupiter is a massive storm that has been raging for at least 350 years.

Saturn's rings are made up of chunks of ice and rock ranging in size from tiny particles to large boulders.

Ganymede is one of Jupiter's moons is the largest moon in our solar system.

The James Webb Space Telescope is the next-generation space telescope set to explore the universe in more detail. Solar system is about 4.6 billion years old and the Sun makes up about 99.86% of its total mass.

The atmosphere of Uranus smells like rotten eggs due to the presence of hydrogen sulfide gas.

The tallest mountain in our solar system is on Mars called Olympus Mons which is about 13.6 miles (22 km) high.

Neptune's blue color comes from the presence of methane in its atmosphere.

The spacecraft Voyager 1 has travelled farther from Earth than any other human made object.

The Northern Lights or Aurora Borealis are caused by charged particles from the Sun interacting with Earth's magnetic field.

Jupiter has at least 79 known moons including the four largest known as the Galilean moons.

The distance between Earth and the Sun is called an

astronomical unit (AU) and it's about 93 million miles.

The First Woman in space was Valentina Tereshkova who is a Soviet cosmonaut orbited Earth in 1963.

FASCINATING FACTS ABOUT DINOSAURS

Dinosaurs lived on Earth for about 165 million years.

The word dinosaur comes from the Greek words deinos and sauros which together mean terrible lizard Dinosaurs were a diverse group ranging from small bird like creatures to massive and long-necked giants.

The largest dinosaur ever discovered is Argentinosaurus which is a massive long-necked herbivore that could reach lengths of up to 100 feet.

The smallest dinosaur - Microraptor which was about the size of a crow.

Many dinosaurs were covered in feathers even some of the larger ones like the Tyrannosaurus rex.

T.rex had teeth the size of bananas and could exert a bite force of over 8,000 pounds.

The Stegosaurus had a brain the size of a walnut which is one of the smallest brain to body ratios of any dinosaur. Velociraptors were likely covered in feathers and were much smaller than portrayed in movies like Jurassic Park.

Triceratops means "three-horned face" and had a massive frill protecting its neck.

The first dinosaur fossils were discovered in the early 19th century in England.

Sauropods like Brachiosaurus and Apatosaurus were some of the largest animals to ever walk the Earth.

The first dinosaur to be formally named was Megalosaurus in 1824

The oldest known dinosaur is Nyasasaurus dating back to about 243 million years ago.

Extinction event wiped out the dinosaurs occurred around 65 million years ago likely caused by an asteroid impact.

Birds are considered living dinosaurs as they evolved from small feathered dinosaurs.

Some dinosaurs like the Ankylosaurus had bony armor to protect them from predators.

The word paleontology means the study of ancient life and it includes the study of dinosaurs.

The Spinosaurus is the largest known carnivorous dinosaur even bigger than the T. rex.

The Velociraptor was a fast and intelligent predator likely hunting in packs.

Some dinosaurs like the Parasaurolophus had elaborate crests on their heads that may have been used for communication.

The Dilophosaurus is often misrepresented in movies. In reality it was much larger and lacked the ability to spit venom.

The name Brontosaurus is often misused. The correct name for the dinosaur is Apatosaurus.

Some dinosaurs like the Therizinosaurus had long and scythe like claws.

The first dinosaur eggs were discovered in Mongolia in the 1920s.

The study of dinosaur tracks is known as ichnology.

The Maiasaura was a dinosaur that was believed to care for its young as evidence of family groups has been found.

The first flying vertebrates called pterosaurs were not dinosaurs but they lived during the same time.

The Velociraptor was more closely related to modern birds than it was to the larger T. rex.

The stegosaurus had plates on its back that helped regulate its body temperature.

Some dinosaurs like the Micropachycephalosaurus had thick domes on their heads that may have been used in headbutting contests.

The first recorded dinosaur bone discovered in North America was a thigh bone found in New Jersey in 1787. The name Dinosauria was coined by Sir Richard Owen in 1842.

Some dinosaurs like the Deinonychus had sickle shaped claws on their hind limbs.

The Iguanodon was one of the first dinosaurs to be named and was initially mistaken for a giant iguana.

The term Jurassic comes from the Jura Mountains where many dinosaur fossils were first discovered.

The Compsognathus was a small and agile dinosaur with a long tail.

The majority of dinosaur fossils have been found in North America and Asia.

The Pachycephalosaurus had a thick domed skull possibly used for head-butting competitions.

Some dinosaurs like the Brachiosaurus had a longer front leg than hind leg which give them a giraffe like appearance.

The Tyrannosaurus rex had tiny two-fingered hands that were likely not very useful.

Dromaeosaurs like Velociraptors are believed to have been intelligent and may have had complex social

structures.

The largest dinosaur eggs ever discovered were about the size of a basketball.

The Oviraptor was initially thought to be an egg thief but was later discovered to be protecting its own nest.

The term terrible lizard for dinosaurs is somewhat misleading as many were not lizard like in appearance.

The T. rex had a keen sense of smell and its olfactory bulbs were larger than those of most other dinosaurs.

Some dinosaurs like the Corythosaurus