These notions about science were culled from essays, exams, and classroom discussions. Most come from fifth and sixth graders. (The Greatest Jokebook Ever by Mel Greene)
Someday we may discover how to make magnets that can point in any direction.
South America has cold summers and hot winters, but somehow they still manage.
Most books now say our sun is a star. But it knows how to change back into a sun in the daytime.
Water freezes at 32 degrees and boils at 212 degrees. There are 180 degrees between freezing and boiling because there are 180 degrees between north and south.
There are twenty-six vitamins in all, but some of the letters are yet to be discovered. Finding them all means living forever.
There is a tremendous weight pushing down on the center of the Earth because of so much population stomping around up there these days.
Lime is a green-tasting rock.
Many dead animals in the past changed to fossils while others preferred to be oil.
Some people can tell what time it is by looking at the sun. But I have never been able to make out the numbers.
In some rocks you can find the fossil footprints of fishes.