Amazing facts about Lemon for Kids

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• The lemon is native to Asia, around Northeast India, North Burma, and China.
• Lemons are believed to be a hybrid between a sour orange and a citron.
• The lemon is an evergreen tree, it blooms (a white flower) and produces fruit all year round. Each tree can produce between 500 and 600 pounds (225kgs and 270kgs) of lemons a year.
• Christopher Columbus took lemon seeds with him to the America's in 1493, introducing the fruit there.
• Lemons have a sour taste to them, this is due to the fact that lemon juice contains about 5-6% citric acid.
• Lemon juice is the main ingredient of lemonade. The sour taste of the juice also makes it ideal for squeezing on fish, while slices of lemon or lemon rind are used as a garnish for many other foods and drinks.
• Lemon zest (grated outer rind) is used for flavor in baking of cakes, sponges and biscuits, puddings like lemon meringue pie, rice and other dishes.
• Even the leaves of a lemon tree can be used to make tea and in the preparation of cooked meats and seafoods.
• Due to its high acidic nature the juice of a lemon can be used for cleaning. Lemon halves dipped in salt or baking powder can be used to brighten up copper and clean kitchenware. 
• An experiment that involves attaching electrodes to a lemon can create a battery that produces electricity. Several lemon batteries can power a small digital watch.
• The top 5 producers of lemons in the world each year, in no particular order, are China, India, Mexico, Argentina and Brazil.
• Because lemons are high in vitamin C they can prevent the disease scurvy which was common among sailors stuck on ships for months. Even today, the British Navy requires ships to carry enough lemons so that every sailor can have one ounce of juice a day.
• The demand for lemons and their scurvy-preventing abilities hit a peak in the California Gold Rush of 1849. Malnourished miners were willing to pay a lot for a single lemon. Today, California is still full of lemon trees as a result.
• Common varieties of lemon include Meyer, Eureka, and Lisbon.
• In 2003, the heaviest lemon ever grown was recorded in Kefar Zeitim, Israel. It weighed 5.265 kg (11 lb 9.7 oz), had a circumference of 74 cm (29 in) and was 35 cm (13.7 in) high. Guinness World Records 2013

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Fun facts about Red Foxes

Amazing facts about red foxes such as behaviour, intelligence, physical, diet, life ... A fox's den is normally a burrow underground, also known as an 'earth', but ...

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• A fox’s den is normally a burrow underground, also known as an ‘earth’, but they can also live above ground in a cosy hollow.
• While they are solitary animals, during breeding season (winter) when they court and mate, the dog fox will support the female (vixen) by bringing food for the family (early spring).
• You can often hear the mating calls, which is a sharp, high-pitched shrieking/screaming noise, which can sound quite terrifying.
• Vixens are occasionally assisted in rearing their cubs by a non-breeding sister or a female cub from a previous litter. These ‘aunts’ gain valuable experience which helps them to rear their own litter successfully the next season. Occasionally there can be two dog fox’s associated with one vixen.
• The cubs’ eyes and ears open after two weeks and at four weeks they will emerge from their dens. They have short noses which resemble puppies when born. However, many cubs die prematurely due to other predators (dogs, badgers), but their worst predator is the motor vehicle. They also can die of starvation or cold during hard winters.
• They catch small rodents with a characteristic high pounce. This technique is one of the first things cubs learn as they begin to hunt.
• Did you know that foxes have whiskers on their legs as well as around their faces, which they use to help them find their way?
• Foxes have also been known to climb trees and settle on low branches.
• Foxes are great night-time predators because their eyes are specially adapted to night vision. Behind the light sensitive cells lies another layer called the tapetum lucidum which reflects light back through the eye. This doubles the intensity of images received by the fox. Their eyes glow green when light is shone into them at night.
• The fox does not chew its food. Instead it uses its carnassial or shearing teeth to cut the meat into manageable chunks.
• A fox’s range varies from 10 hectares in cities to over 2000 hectares in rural area. 
• Foxes belong to the dog family, which includes wolves, coyotes, grey foxes, raccoon dogs and their relatives. All members of this family are incredibly adaptable animals, and this makes them successful colonisers in many areas of the world practically in all habitats available and often in close proximity to humans.
• They were introduced to Australia in the mid-19th century and are native to Europe, Asia and North Africa.
• There are native and non-native red foxes in North America; the native foxes are a Canadian Boreal Forest species that historically occurred in the northern regions of North America. They colonised there shortly after the last glacial period, around 11,000 years ago. The non-native species were released by early European settlers for hunting purposes, as early as the mid 1700s.
• Over the centuries the fox has been hunted for its fur (and its’ tail cut-off which is used as the hunters trophy, known as a ‘brush’). 
• Foxes are also caught in snares by some farmers and gamekeepers.
• Foxhunting was banned in Scotland in 2002 and England and Wales in 2004 under the Hunting Act. However this law is under threat of being repealed.

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