Friday 22 January 2016

Fact Hunters: Explorers & tectonic plates

Daniel Kalusha
Devices that emit blue light include e-readers, tablets, laptops, smart phones and several types of flat screen televisions. This blue light has sleep-disturbing effects! So put them down before you hit the pillow.

Chloe Kirk
Tectonic plates move at the same speed – roughly – that your fingernails grow… 3.7cm per year.

Fayo Ayodola
Did you know that Columbus was probably not the first European to cross the Atlantic Ocean? Many believe that the Norse Viking Leif Eriksson landed in present-day Newfoundland around 1000 A.D. almost five centuries before Columbus set sail.

Abbie Sullivan
Incredibly the Germans were the first side to use flame throwers in WW1. Their machines could throw jets of flame as far as 130ft.



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