Starting January 2023 we are going to gather wisdom from Usborne Books webpage:
January 2: A snowman can be found in space named Arrokoth past Neptune and Uranus. It is 33km from head to toe and was found in the Kuiper Belt area which is a band of icy rocks at the edge of the solar system.
January 9: Not all astronauts are humans. Dogs were used to control spacecrafts and were trained by scientists as were the following animals sent to space: tortoises, rats, rabbits, monkeys, frogs, apes, and guinea pigs.
January 16: Chinese chefs use one knife a clever-like tou and use all parts of it whereas other chefs around the worked use dozens of specialized knives.
January 23: King William I in 1830 gave in to the people and Kingdom of Belgium was made after a month of fighting with crowds bursting into government buildings. Before that it was the Kingdom of the Netherlands. People were angry with the King, however they loved their country just as the two singers in the Opera La muette de Portici's Act IV.
January 30: In Australia there is a mountain called Mount Wingen nicknamed Burning Mountain. Coal has been smouldering beneath it for a millennia, over 6,000 years. Scientists think wildfire or lightening originally caused the spark.
February 6: In the forests of Southeast Asia siamangs live there. These gibbons mate for life and everyday at dawn the two sing a duet and they believe that is the reason why their love is strong.
February 13: Bananas make a great alternative to eggs when baking, especially a cake which is generally created from flour, sugar, eggs and oil or butter. Sometimes you can exchange one or two ingredients for foods that have similar properties to create a cake, although the taste may not be quite the same. *our note bananas make your hair super shiny and have some great calcium in them*
February 20: In the 12th and 19th centuries people in Europe could not write or read so when they took a loan wooden receipts were used called split tally sticks by people who lent money. This allowed everyone to read them. The sticks were carved with notches to represent the amount of money loaned.
Feb 27: Around our earth are many satellites and two space stations that travel faster than the speed of sound even though they look to be moving slowly around the planet when we gaze up into the evening sky.
March 6: Spiders make webs from an area that comes out of their body which are tiny tubes called spinnerets. These spinnerets produced a spider silk which is like a thread of protein that the spiders use to make webs. These strands of silk are strong enough to not break during rain, falling twigs, leaves falling on them, and wind. Thinner sticky threads trap insects in the webs allowing the spiders to have something to feed on.
March 13: Lachrutterflies and bees drink crocodile tears.
Some insects make a habit of sipping other animals’ tears, a phenomenon known as lachryphagy. They do this because tears are full of nutrients and minerals that may not be part of a butterflies or bees’ diet of nectar and pollen.
When we moved to Mississauga we were able to find some lovely Usborne books which are some sources of these facts:
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