DID YOU KNOW?
This week the team has created some rather informative and interesting facts. Enjoy these facts and learn something new about the events occurring in our world.
1. Producers often add sugar to manufactured meals to improve the taste. This kind of sugar is called added sugar. The fact that added sugar contains empty calories is true. Other than sugar, it has no nutrition. If you base your diet on foods with added sugar, you might develop vitamin shortages.
2. Hugo Junkers, a German aeronautical engineer and designer, is credited with developing flying wings and all-metal aircraft. Hugo Junkers was put under house arrest in 1934 after refusing to In retaliation, the Nazis required ownership of all patents and market shares from his remaining firms.
3. William G. Morgan created volleyball in 1895. Due to the problems he had with basketball and the fact that it was rough for children, he invented volleyball. In 1896, the first volleyball match was played. Before Morgan switched to a rubber ball in the 1900s, volleyball was played with a basketball.
4. Whale sound waves have been converted into seismic waves that go through the layers of the ocean crust. Whale calls strike the seafloor. A seismometer measures the waves as they travel to the surface layer. It measures the thickness of each crust layer by the number of times the waves reflect back.
5. Sudan has more ancient pyramids than Egypt, but in reality, they are smaller, differently built, and much older. In comparison to the 200 Egyptian pyramids, the more substantial Sudan has about 2000 Kushite pyramids. The Kushite pyramids show international trade, human migration, and knowledge.
6. A Dutch eyeglass maker named Hans Lippershey was the first to patent a telescope in 1608. He built a device that could magnify objects three times their regular size and called it the “looker.” In 1609, Galileo developed his own design that peered up into the sky and could make out the moon’s craters.
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