Trivia of the Week: Chocolate Santa

Like chocolate bunnies at Easter, chocolate Santas are often given to children at Christmastime. These Santas are made of molded chocolate, but the foil wrapper provides most of the details so that you can recognize them as Santa Claus.  ...

Trivia of the Week: Hyena

Hyenas look similar to dogs, but they are more closely related to cats! They live in Africa. Some kinds are hunters and others are scavengers. Hyenas are active at night. The spotted hyena is also called the “laughing hyena” because of its bark.  ...

Trivia of the Week: Peanut Brittle

Peanut brittle is a flat candy with peanuts in it. “Brittle” means “hard and easy to break”, and peanut brittle is broken into pieces, rather than cut. Peanut brittle is popular in the U.S. but in other places other nuts are more popular, such as pecans or almonds....

Trivia of the Week: Slug

A slug is like a snail but it has no shell. It has four tentacles on its face—two that can see and two that can smell. Many slugs actually do have shells, but inside their bodies. Sea slugs live in the sea, but land slugs also need a lot of water, so they are more...

Trivia of the Week: Seahorses

Seahorses live in the sea, but they are not horses. They are actually fish. The shape of their heads looks a little horse-like. As fish, they lay eggs, but interestingly, the eggs hatch inside a pouch on the father seahorse, who then “gives birth”.  ...