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Facts about Mammals

October 20th, 2009

Mammals they are everywhere and they are beautiful.  Here are some interesting facts about these wonderful animals.

-Mammals are the class humans belong to.

-Mammals are one of the smallest classes, they have about 4,000 kinds of species. Unlike other species, there are about 21,000 species of fish and 800,000 species insects.

-All Mammals are hot blooded, this is useful when living in  a place with a variety of climates. They always keep their blood warm to remain active. That is why mammals live in all kind of places, polar bears live in the north, some live underground, some in caves and some in bloody hot places like the camel.

-When Mammals are getting hot they sweat and release heat.

-Mammals have hair, which is a dead substance that makes up nails. Unlike giant spider’s hair which isn’t dead, so therefor it is not true hair.

-Mammals have long hair and some have short hair depending on their lifestyle. Even the dolphin has hair and the whale too. Those who live cold areas have more hair.

-All Mammals are born inside of their mothers body. Except the platypus who lays eggs like birds.

-All Mammals drink milk from their mother  and they all have a milk tooth, baby tooth. Except for the anteater because it doesn’t have any teeth.

-Everything a baby mammal learns is from his mother. They try often to copy their mothers to survive.

-All Mammals have a spine of their back, that is why mammals are called vertebrates. Many of the other classes don’t have back spines.

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Facts about The Guitar

October 19th, 2009

By favorite instrument to play,to be fair I only play two instruments. The Modern Guitar has brought some of the best songs, movie themes in this last few decades. Here some intriguing facts about it.

-The ancestor of the modern guitar can be traced back to ancient Central Asia and India.

-The first sign guitar in ancient writings is the one, the romans brought to hispania.

-In Ancient Times, the stringed instrument was called many things such as the following, cithara, qitare, gitarre, guitare, guittarra.

-Guitars are constructed and repaired by Luthiers.

-There are left handed guitars and right handed ones, there is a change to the string order.

-Many of the worlds most popular modern guitarists were left handed, Jimi Hendrix, Kurt Cobain, Paul McCartney.

-Acoustic Guitars are made out of nylon strings.

-Electric Guitars emit string vibrations that are then turned into electrical signals making the sound.

-Baroque Guitars are used as rhythm instruments.

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Facts about Sugar

October 19th, 2009

Kids love it, so do I. Sugar Sugar Sugar, things without sugar are so dull to me.

Here are some Sugary facts for you.

-Sugar gives you short term energy.

-The Energy you get from sugar, you lose it very quickly. So Basically it is like a short burst of energy.

-Sugar is empty , it only contains energy, no vitamins, no minerals, none of that stuff.

-Our body loves sugar because it knows that sugar carries energy. Before it was vegetables and fruits but now our body gets sugar from all sorts of things.

-Bacteria and Fungi hate to live in areas where there is sugar, vinegar and Salt. So everything that has sugar on it doesn’t have bacteria roaming around it.

-The bacterias in our mouths like to feed on what we feed, specially sugar. As they grow stronger, the white coat on our teethes become yellow.  Cut on the sugar bit you sugar lovers!

-We often see a bar of kit kat extra big. And think, oh it’s pretty cheap but actually sugar doesn’t cost a thing for those companies and they probably make money out of you.

-Humans have always loved sugar, in the older days, our ancestors would eat berries for their natural sugar.

-Cereals usually have sugar in them because they tend to wake you up in the morning.

-In some countries like  Brazil, India, sugar is used to fuel cars.

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