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It takes seven to make a rainbow.
What are colors?
The first color babies can see is red! The more wavelengths a color has, the easier it is for our eyes to see it - and red has the longest wavelength of all the colors. This is why we can see red so much easier in the dark or at further distances than other colors.
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This classic, simple sandwich is sweet and salty and only requires two ingredients (other than the bread).
What is a peanut butter and jelly sandwich?
Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches were popularized during WWII, as they were among the few reliable rations for soldiers at the time.
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The Little Mermaid's name.
What is Ariel?
Did you know that technically, Ursula isn't an octopus? She's a cecaelia - a mythical human-octopus hybrid.
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Do you know the ______ ___?
Who is the Muffin Man?
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He lives in a pineapple under the sea!
Who is SpongeBob SquarePants?
Did you know that the creator of SpongeBob went to college just two hours north of us at Humboldt State University? SpongeBob, Patrick, Bikini Bottom, and everything else in the show were heavily inspired by his marine biology studies and favorite places to hang out in Humboldt!
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The "lightest" color: simply put, it lacks any color at all.
What is white?
The reason we see white as we do is because it reflects and scatters all visible wavelengths of all the colors (the opposite of black, which absorbs everything instead).
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This cheesy dish is wildly popular up in Canada - they do love their noodles up north!
What is mac and cheese?
Canadians eat a lot of mac and cheese (55% more than the runner-up), and they love to put ketchup on it!
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She's got until midnight to dance the night away!
Who is Cinderella?
The story of Cinderella is old - ancient Greeks first recorded a story they heard from Egypt about a young slave woman whose sandal was snatched by an eagle who then dropped it on a king. The king was so taken by the slipper's shape and the strangeness of its discovery that he decided he had to find and marry the owner of the shoe!
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This guy owns a farm, E-I-E-I-O!
Who is Old MacDonald?
This song was originally written for an opera, if you can believe that! Back in 1706, it made its debut on stage before eventually becoming the folk song/nursery rhyme we know it as today.
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This French dish isn't actually French!
What are French fries?
French fries are actually Belgian, but American soldiers fighting in Europe during WWI thought they were in France when they were introduced to the tasty dish.
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One of the "warmer" colors in the color wheel, you can find it between red and yellow.
What is orange?
This color is known to increase energy, engagement, and competitiveness - that's why so many sports teams use it in their logos! Odds are that a favorite team of yours has some orange in its logo or mascot.
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This super sticky sweet is often part of a tasty campfire treat.
What is a marshmallow?
Astronauts used to put marshmallows up their noses to protect them during lift-off (if you've ever seen a marshmallow in a vacuum, you'll know why this trick works!
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With lips as red as rose, hair as black as ebony, and skins as white as snow, she's the fairest of them all.
Who is Snow White?
Snow White was the very first of the Disney Princesses, created all the way back in 1937!
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All the King's horses and all the King's men couldn't put this dude back together again.
Who is Humpty Dumpty?
The rhyme never actually states that Humpty is an egg! But since we all know him to be an egg, it is thought that perhaps the Humpty Dumpty rhyme started out as a riddle, and now the answer is spoiled forever.
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You might get twisted up playing this classic game!
What is Twister?
Originally, Twister was going to be called "Pretzel," but ultimately the game's creators settled on the name we know today.
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You have to mix blue and red to get this regal color.
What is purple?
The color purple doesn't actually "exist" - there is not a single wavelength of light that possesses the color purple. When red (longest) and blue (shortest) wavelengths combine, our brains just perceive it as purple.
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This rolled fish dish is usually eaten with chopsticks, but you can just use your hands, too.
What is sushi?
This dish was so valued at one point that people used it for currency! 1,300 years ago in Japan people were allowed to pay their taxes with sushi.
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He could tell a lie, but the proof would be right there on his face!
Who is Pinocchio?
There is some truth to the story - while they don't grow like Pinocchio's does, when we lie, our noses tend to get warmer! Researchers call this the "Pinocchio Effect".
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You may have a pocket full of these in this nursery rhyme!
What is Ring Around the Rosie?
Historically used to mask odors and ward off illnesses (which is what they are doing in "Ring Around the Rosie"), posies are small, hand-held bouquets of flowers and fragrant herbs often bound tightly with ribbon. They were also used to communicate secret messages between folks in the Victorian Era, when each flower had a "secret" meaning - tulips for perfect love, daisies for innocence and purity, aloe for bitterness, daffodil for regard, chivalry, or unrequited love, and so on.
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This Christmas thief was originally black and white!
Who is The Grinch?
He also had pink eyes instead of yellow! He's green now because the director of the original animated adaptation rented a car painted a horrible shade of green and thought it would be fun to make the Grinch a similar shade.
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This color got its name from a flower - but not the flower you think it is!
What is pink?
Pink is the name of a genus (group) of flowers called the Dianthus, which are named after their zig-zag petals that look as though they've been cut with scissors.
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This classic, usually fruit-flavored treat, was created by accident!
What are popsicles?
In 1905, 11-year-old San Francisco resident Frank Epperson accidentally made the first version of what he would come to call "popsicles" when he left his mixture of powdered soda pop and water on his porch overnight. Nineteen years later, he branded his creation under its now-famous name, got it patented as "a frozen drink on a stick", and the rest is history.
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This newer take on an old tale is set in New Orleans (and the surrounding bayou), where the main character dreams of opening her own restaurant.
What is The Princess and the Frog?
The actress who voiced Tiana asked if the character could be left-handed like her. The animators happily agreed to add that cool little detail - to date, only Tiana and Mulan are left-handed in the Disney Princess universe.
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"Life is but a dream" in this stream!
What is Row, Row, Row Your Boat?
The version we all know and sing today hasn't been updated since 1881 - that's 144 years ago!
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The galaxy we are located in.
What is the Milky Way?
Some folks think the famous candy bar is named after the galaxy, but it was actually named after a famous malted shake at the time, not the place we call home in the universe.