The record for the longest time period without sleep is 18 days, 21 hours, 40 minutes during a rocking chair marathon. The record holder reported paranoia, hallucinations, blurred vision, slurred speech and memory and concentration lapses.

There is an average of 200 seeds on a strawberry.

Atomic Clock

The quartz crystal in your wristwatch vibrates 32,768 times a second. A cesium atom in an atomic clock that beats over nine billion times a second.

A volcano is arupture in the planet’s surface or crust, which allows hot magma, ash and gases to escape from below the surface. The word volcano is derived from Vulcano, the name of an island off Sicily which in turn was named after Vulcan, the Roman god of fire.

A fathom is 6 feet or 2 years. Used especially for measuring the depth of water.

The APA is the the American Pyrotechnics Association. The APA estimates that more than 14,000 fireworks displays light up U.S. skies each 4th of July.

Angel Falls in Venezuela is the world’s tallest waterfall at 979 m (3,212 ft).

A maelstrom is a very powerful whirlpool with a significant downdraft. Don’t ever get too close to one because it will drag you down into it.

Water moves around the earth and it has a cycle. The earths water cycle has five parts: evaporation, condensation, precipitation, infiltration and surface run-off.

Each of the traps on a Venus Flytrap die after the second or third capture. New traps will grow on the plant even if prey hasn’t been captured by the traps.

The traps on a Venus Flytrap range in size from 1-3cms in length. Each of the traps have small trigger hairs. The touch sensive hairs are triggered by an insect which in turn closes the trap. As the insect tries to get away the trap tightens.Once tightly sealed, the The Venus Flytrap secretes digestive juices into the trap to digest it’s prey.. After 7 to 10 days the bug is digested and the plant reopens for it’s next meal. Rain washes away the remains of the bug.