One Week Left!

It is hard to believe the school year is almost over! We have reached the last week of school! Here are some interesting facts about the number one:

-"Scientific America" carried the first magazine automobile ad in 1898.
-"Billie Jean" by Michael Jackson was the first video to air on MTV by a black artist.
-"One" is the only number with its letters in reverse alphabetical order.
-One in 5,000 North Atlantic lobsters are born bright blue.
-111, 111, 111 X 111, 111, 111= 12, 345, 678, 987, 654, 321
-One in ten people live on an island/
-One pound of honey consists of 29, 184 drops.
-The average length of a newborn kangaroo is about one inch.
-One single drop of water contains one hundred billion atoms.
-The Pony Express only lasted for one year (1860-1861).
-Antarctica has only one ATM machine.
-Approximately one out of four injuries by athletes involve the wrist and hand.
-The first person to reach the North Pole in a solo trek across the Arctic sea-ice was Naomi Uemura.
-The number one fruit in America is the banana.
-One U.S. state no longer exists; "In 1784 the U.S. had a state called Franklin, named after Benjamin Franklin. Four years later, it was incorporated into Tennessee."

--Whitney Black, Editor-in-Chief