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Hi Everyone! In this post, I'll be sharing a few fun facts with you! Hope you enjoy them. :-) When do ants sleep? Never! They don't sleep! You can't keep your eyes open while sneezing, it's impossible! The little dot above the "i" is called a "Tittle". If spell the word "Racecar" backwards, you still get "Racecar"! Teddy Bears got their name after President Teddy Rosevelt. Fish sleep with their eyes open! The longest word you can spell with the top line of the keyboard is "Typewriter" The sentence, " The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses all the letters of the alphabet. No word in the English language rhymes with "orange". The song "Happy Birthday is copyrighted.

Hi! This week lots of us have gone back to school! To get into the school spirit, I thought of posting this bit of information I found out! Hope you find it Mathtastic! Adding, subtracting, dividing, and multiplying are things that we must know how to do. It seems like a nuisance trying to memorize our multiplication tables or to do long division. In school, when we are asked to learn our facts we often think that we’re never going to use them. What good are they? But as we grow older we realize that to do more complicated math, we must know the basics. Not only do we use math in our everyday lives, but our brain also recognizes itself as we learn math. This was proved by a team of scientists from Stanford University in California. These scientists had proven this by performing an experiment involving 28 students between the ages of 7 to 9 years old. Each person was given a basic math problem such as, 3+4=7. The students then had to press a button to confirm whether thi...