#92 Why do bees make honey?

I learned this today. Bees make honey as a way to store food through the winter. Flowers cannot move, so they need insects to help them reproduce. To pollinate another flower, the pollen from one flower has to reach another flower. The best way for flowers to do this is to have the pollen stick

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#88 Why is Venice where it is?

I learned this today. Venice was built on 118 small islands in a marshy lagoon because the people from local Roman cities were fleeing waves of Germanic and Hun invasions. The city of Venice was founded at noon on Friday 25th March, 421 AD with the dedication of the first church. Construction started possibly five

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#87 How do stars die?

I learned this today. Stars die because they exhaust all of their fuel. There are seven different types of star. They are classified using the Morgan-Keenan system. They are given the letters, B, A, F, G, K, and M, to show temperature, and Roman numerals to show luminosity. M, the coolest stars, are between 2,400

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