Today I Learned (11/12-11/15)

In order to continue my own learning and encourage life-long learning habits among Holden students, I started posting daily facts on a "Today I Learned" board I posted on the library door.  I'm only a couple days in, but I enjoy the ritual and have gotten positive feedback from the students I teach.

Here's the first few facts I found:
(thanks to Reddit's fun "today I learned" forum and some web-based research)

10/12-The world's smallest guitar is 10 micrometers long, about the size of a single cell

10/13-The world's longest living vertebrate is the Greenland Shark, which is thought to live over two hundred years

10/14-"Dore" is Old English word for male bee.  "Dumbledore" is Old English for bumblebee.

10/15-The word "echo" comes from Greek mythology.  Hera, in an act of anger at Echo, took away her voice, allowing her only to repeat the shouted phrases of others.

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