Tuesday 20 May 2014

Fact Hunters: Bombs, pearls & islands

Emily Claydon
Did you know that police evacuated people from the Ruislip Lido in February this year when they found an old WW2 bomb? Explosives officer carried out a controlled explosion of the bomb in a grassy area surrounding the reservoir.

Anonymous
The white tip reef shark might look dangerous… but it is scared of humans and only feeds on small sea creatures.

Anonymous
Oysters might be dull to look at, but they can produce brilliant pearls. The most valuable pearls occur spontaneously in the wild, but they are extremely rare. Cultured or farmed pearls from pearl oysters make up the majority of those that are currently sold.

Jessica Simpson
Did you know that Fiji is made up of 333 islands? Amazingly Australia is s 7,686,850 square km in size compared to England’s 130,395 square km. This simply means that Australia is more than 58 times larger than England!




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