And Now You Know is a way to get interesting facts out to the rest of the world, some that you would have never even heard before. The people that find the information for this part of our website is Haylee Simmons and Ethan Haywood, both A-Town 8th graders
(5/17/2016) This weeks facts are on Fast Things:
1. Usain Bolt is the fastest man traveling 100 meters in 9.58 seconds. 2. The cheetah is the fastest land mammal traveling 500m at 120 km/h 3. The fastest tornado traveling at 318 mph in Oklahoma 4. The Sailfish is the fastest aquatic animal traveling at 110 km/h 5. The fastest bird is the Peregrine Falcon traveling at 325 km/h6. The Japanese JR-Maglev is the fastest train traveling at 360 mph
(5/10/2016) This weeks facts are on Space:
1. The skin on your feet peel off in space 2. A day on Venus is longer than a year 3. In space you get taller 4. Your tears don't fall if you cry in space 5. The comet Halley will pass by again in 2061 6. The universe is 93 billion light years away
(5/3/2016) This weeks facts are on The Ocean:
1. Earths surface is covered by 70% of oceans 2. The Pacific Ocean is the largest ocean covering 30% of Earth's surface 3. The Arctic Ocean is almost completely covered with ice during the winter 4. Only 5% of the Earth's oceans have been explored 5. 94% of life on Earth is aquatic 6. 70% of oxygen we breathe is produced by ocean
(4/26/2016) This weeks facts are on Movies:
1. Psycho was the first American film to show a toilet flushing 2. In The Lion King there was originally a song about eating bugs 3. In The Big Lebowski the word dude was used 161 times 4. Every ten years The Breakfast Club was supposed to make sequels, but didn’t make it 5. In Brave the weird gibberish spoken by McGuffin’s son is called Doric 6. On Avatar James Cameron would nail cell phones that would ring on set during a take on the wall
(4/19/16) This weeks facts are on Other Countries: 1. Liechtenstein is the world’s largest producer of false teeth 2. Niue, New Zealand has currency with Disney, Pokemon, and Star Wars characters on it 3. Canada has the most lakes in the world with over 3 million 4. Papua New Guinea has over 820 languages spoken in it 5. On Canary Island people communicate through whistles 6. Scotland's national animal is a Unicorn
This weeks facts are on Sports:
1. There have been 3 Olympic games held in countries that no longer exist. 2. There are normally 10 hurdles in a standard hurdle race 3. Baseballs have exactly 108 stitches 4. The longest Volleyball game took 75 hour and 30 minutes in Kingston, North Carolina 5. Slam dunks were illegal from 1967-76 6. Up until 1939 helmets weren’t mandatory for football players
This weeks facts are on Animals:
1. Squirrels will adopt another Squirrel's babies if they are abandoned 2. Octopuses have 3 hearts 3. Kangaroos use their tails to balance, and they can't balance without them 4. Flamingos can only eat when their head is upside down 5. Grizzly Bears can stand up to 8 feet on their back legs 6. Female Lions do 90% of the hunting for their families