In Victorian times, young children had to go into the mines and work for food. A Hurrier was a child who had to push or pull carts of coal under the ground. Sadly their maximum pay for the whole year was only 1,000 shillings. Children as young as six would have to work in the mines!
Adam Trower
Did you know that Coca Cola isn’t really brown? They use caramel food colouring to make it look that way! When the drink was first made, it was done in unclean surroundings. The brown colour covered up any strange things in the drink.
Sienna Nickson
A shark does not have one bone in its body! Instead its skeleton is made of cartilage – the stuff that’s in your nose.
Sophie Nickson
A desert centipede is a venomous centipede. It can cause extreme pain with one bite! Strangely it doesn’t actually have 100 legs, just 42. Furthermore a giraffe has a kick powerful enough to kill a lion and if a starfish loses an arm, it will grow back. Although it does take about a year.
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