Today for sustained silent reading, I read "99 random facts about the world". The purpose of this text is to inform the reader and the target audience is for people of all ages. Here are some of the facts I read about.
The 'Mimic' octopus can not only change colour, but can also mimic the shape of other animals such as flounder, lion fish and sea snakes.
If you were to remove all the empty space from the atoms that make up every human on Earth, the world's entire population could fit in an apple.
In the 1960's, the CIA tried to spy on the Kremlin and Russian embassies by turning cats into listening devices. The program involved surgically implanting batteries, microphones and antennae inside of cats.
Dr Seuss wrote the book 'Green eggs and ham' to win a bet against his publisher who thought that he could not complete a book with only fifty words.
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