Fact of the Week

WEEK of JULY 3, 2017
(The last one of the 2016-2017 school year! See you in the fall!)

The first U.S. cross-country automobile trip, from San Francisco to New York City in 1903, took 63 days. If you drove it straight through today, accounting for traffic, stops for meals, bathroom breaks and gas, it would take about
50 hours.

Week of June 26, 2017
More people are attacked by moose every year than by bears. A threatened rhinoceros can charge at speeds of up to 35 miles per hour. A scent released from glands in a squirrel's foot helps it mark its territory.