Everyone is different... we have different skin colours, different types of hair, different characters, but one thing is the same – if we had to have a look inside our body everyone is the same. All of us have loads of blood vessels, cells and bones, all working together so that we can go about our daily life. Have you ever imagined that there are 26 billion cells in a newborn baby and 50 trillion cells in an adult? Read more about how our body works in our interesting article, Your Body: A Peek Inside.

All of you use SMSs as a means of fast and easy communication. But how fast can you actually write your text? A 16-year-old student from Singapore claims to have the fastest thumbs in the world when he wrote a

160-character, 26 word SMS in just 41.5 seconds. Read more about this amazing fact in the article, Record Breakers.

How many different spiders have you seen in your life? One, two, or maybe three? In our article Spiders, you will learn that in fact the number of different species of spiders on our little island runs into hundreds!

See you next Thursday

Frances