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Mix
up the numbers by clicking the Shuffle button.
See how long it takes you to move all the numbers
back into their original order. To move a number
into the blank space, simply click it.
Are
you quick enough to capture the blue ball without
also capturing a red ball? Using your mouse, drag
and/or resize the rectangle and isolate the blue
ball above/below/left or right of the rectangle.
Green balls are worth extra points if captured
with the blue ball. Capture a red ball and you
lose. Play
GOTCHA!
How well do you know your MONEY?
Here's a money-counting challenge for younger
kids.
Traveling
Bug
How
many of our U.S. states have you
visited? (The ones I've
visited are RED in the map below.)
If you want to create your own
map, follow the link below.
The
Mexican
Jumping Bean is not a bean. It
is actually a thin-shelled section
of a seed capsule containing the larva
of a small gray moth called the jumping
bean moth (Laspeyresia saltitans).
At
840,000 square miles,Greenland
is the largest island in the world.
It is 3 times the size of Texas. By
comparison Iceland is only 39,800
square miles.
Kids
in ancient
Egypt made hoops from dry, stripped
grapevines and used them the way we
use hula hoops today.
Brrrrr-rr!
The coldest temperature ever measured
on Earth was -129 Fahrenheit (-89
Celsius) at Vostok, Antarctica, on
July 21, 1983. And speaking of Antarctica...it
is the only continent without reptiles
or snakes.
There
is an average of 50,000 spiders per
acre in green areas.
The
hog-nosed
skunk can spray its noxious spray
up to fifteen feet and is said to
be incredibly accurate. Its victim
will have either low vision or no
vision for up to two days.
The
first attempt at creating a microwave
oven came in 1952, when Tappan
introduced the first home model. It
cost $1295!
It
take between four and five pounds
of grapes to produce a single pound
of raisins.
The
earliest known written version of
Sleeping
Beauty was published in 1637 by
an Italian named Giambattista Basile.
Add
this to your list of oddball inventions:
In 1976 someone filed a U.S. Patent
for Pogo Shoes--a combination of ugly
boots and a pogo
stick. So far, no reports of them
on the store shelves.
Ostriches
are capable of running 15 mph.
Betcha can't catch one!
Since
they first came out in 1949, more
than 189 billion Lego
pieces in 2,000 different shapes have
been produced!
The
longest street in the world is named
Yonge Street. It originates on the
norh short of Lake Ontario (in Toronto,
Canada) and ends at the Ontario-Manitoba-Minnesota
border!
The
state of New York instituted the nation's
first mandatory
seat-belt law on July 12, 1984.
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