Fun Facts
Fun Facts About the Places where Lo visits
Fun Facts About North America
- The Largest City Is Mexico City
- Mayans were the first ones to process cacao to make chocolate.
- Corn is a hot commodity in North America, not only can you eat it, but it can also be used for fuel and other things. When it comes to corn production, North America reigns supreme. The U.S. is by far the top producer of corn compared to anyone around the world.
- Black-eyed Susans (Rudbeckia hirta) are native to North America and one of the most popular wildflowers grown. They tend to blanket open fields, often surprising the passerby with their golden-yellow beauty.
- The Mounties ride black horses of mostly Thoroughbred blood, however in 1989 Hanoverian stallions and mares were introduced to enhance the quality, size and color of the horses.
- Macaws can live more than 80 years when properly taken care of. Some macaw species, such as blue and gold macaws, can live for an average of 60 years, and many have been recorded to live for up to 80 years or even more.
- Grizzly Bears in North America don’t hibernate, and the hump on a grizzly bear’s back is a huge muscle.
- Moose are powerful swimmers, Bull moose shed their antlers each year.
- Native to the tallgrass prairie and North American Great Plains, the narrow-leaved purple coneflower ” Echinacea was once abundant and had an extensive range,”
Fan Facts About Africa
- Africa is the second-largest continent in the world.
- There are 54 countries in Africa, all with their own cultures and languages.
- There are 1.2 billion people who live in Africa, which is 16% of the world’s population!
- Lake Victoria, which borders Uganda, Tanzania and Kenya, is the largest lake in Africa and the second-largest in the world.
- The River Nile is the longest river in the entire world! It was a very important source of water and transport for the ancient Egyptians, and most of their large cities and monuments like the pyramids were built near the river.
- The Sahara Desert is the largest hot desert in the world. It is extremely dry, so not many people live there but there are a few people who manage to travel through and even raise animals in the extreme heat!
- It is believed that modern humans originated in Africa before migrating around the world.
- There are as many as 2000 languages spoken in Africa.
- Num-Num berries: Carissa macrocarpa is a shrub native to South Africa. It produces shiny, deep green leaves and snowy white flowers whose perfumed scent intensifies at night. The fruit can be eaten out of hand or made into pies, jams, jellies, and sauces.
- Red Roobios tea: A beautiful fragrant red herbal tea with a naturally sweet taste and floral aroma, Rooibos grows exclusively in the Cederberg Mountains of South Africa and on a bush that is very unlike traditional tea plants. The Red Bush (Rooibos) grows about 3 feet tall and has needle-like leaves similar to a pine tree.
- Confetti bush: Coleonema pulchellum, commonly known as confetti bush, buchu, diosma or breath of heaven, is a shrub which is endemic to South Africa.