When Pacific salmon get to a certain age, their pituitary glands suddenly secrete poison to kill them.
Category: Ocean
Hagfish
The hagfish has terrible table manners. It starts its meal by biting into the gill of another fish. Then it eats its way into the fish’s throat. Finally, it crawls totally inside the victim and kills and eats the fish from the inside out. These hagfish have four hearts and they all beat with independent rhythms.
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Flounder
The flounder, a weird, flat fish, has both eyes on one side of its body.
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Amerigo Vespucci
America was named after Amerigo Vespucci, a man that map maker Martin Waldseemuller mistakenly thought was Christopher Columbus, the discoverer of North America. Vespucci discovered South America.
Christopher Columbus
Christopher Columbus spent less money coming to the New World than it costs the average American to buy a new car today.
Historians think the ships that Christopher Columbus used were smaller than is generally depicted. They were probably between 60 to 80 feet long and 18 to 25 feet wide. Little is known about these three ships, because Columbus did not write about their physical details in his journals. He already knew what they looked like. He probably assumed everyone knew what such ships looked like.
Maybe his ships looked something like this
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Bushnell’s Turtle
In the mid 1770’s David Bushnell, an inventive guy, created the world’s first attack submarine. Using whiskey barrel technology, he made a watertight clam shell shaped vehicle with barely enough room for one man. The thing, nicknamed the Turtle, was placed in New York Harbor one night Continue reading Bushnell’s Turtle
