Aesop’s Fables

The Aesopica is a collection of fables that are said to be told by Aesop, a slave from ancient Greece. Although, they were originally an oral tradition, instead of being written down, so there are some variations of the tales.

Did you know…water can dissolve more substances than any other liquid?

 “For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”

            - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Did you know…Harvard College, Massachusetts, was originally called Cambridge?

The college was renamed after John Harvard, who willed his books (about 400 of them) and £779!

Nicolaus Copernicus

Probably best-known for his book on the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres, Copernicus was a key figure in the Scientific Revolution.

Copernicus’ famous model placed the Sun at the centre of the universe, instead of the Earth. This idea was previously formulated by Aristarchus of Samos, some eighteen centuries earlier.

Did you know…the axolotl can regenerate its limbs? It can even regrow parts of its brain!