Children’s / Teenage general interest: Places and peoples

Did you know that about 40 percent of the world's population lives without toilets?

College students crammed into phone booths.

Ice in the Arctic is disappearing-and opportunity is calling.

In the spring of 1607, an English ship landed at modern-day Virginia.

In September 1783, the United States signed a peace treaty with Great Britain.

By the 1760s, most American colonists had become fed up with British rule.

Hundreds, even thousands, of years before Europeans arrived in North America, American Indians had made their homes here.

Wandering through a maze of geography facts can easily get you lost!

Navigating US geography can leave you feeling lost and all over the map.

Exploring the culture of the United States can be exhausting!

To play professional hockey, you need plenty of grit and determination-it's a physically and emotionally punishing job.

What's your favorite holiday?

Is your birthday coming up?

What's so great about Wisconsin?

What's so great about Virginia?

What's so great about Texas?

What's so great about Tennessee?

What's so great about Pennsylvania?

What's so great about North Dakota?

What's so great about North Carolina?

What's so great about New York?

What's so great about New Mexico?

What's so great about Montana?

What's so great about Minnesota?

What's so great about Massachusetts?

What's so great about Georgia?

What's so great about Florida?

What's so great about Colorado?

What's so great about California?

What's so great about Arkansas?

What's so great about Alabama?

Math is everywhere when you're traveling!

Quick!

When a migrating stork gets tangled in a net in the fish ponds on Maya's kibbutz, Maya wonders what to do.

It's Rosh Chodesh, the beginning of a new month in the Jewish calendar!

Rescued from an animal shelter on the first night of Hanukkah, Latke has trouble learning the house rules.

Did you know that the same wind that messes up your hair can be used to create energy?

Did you know that the sunlight that warms your skin on a sunny day can be used to produce energy?

Did you know that tiny atoms that make up all matter hold huge amounts of energy?

Did you know people can turn the energy in rushing water into electricity?

Did you know people can dig underground and use Earth's heat to make energy?

Did you know that most of the energy we use comes from coal, oil, and natural gas?

Are we there yet?

You know that Santa can fly a sleigh, squeeze down chimneys, and circle the globe in a night.

As a distant howl echoes through the forest, animals quickly stop what they're doing and run for home.

Percy Isaac Gifford's Official Thanksgiving Decree: I officially command you to eat EVERYTHING you see!

In 1936, the New York Yankees wanted to test a hot prospect named Joe DiMaggio to see if he was ready for the big leagues.

Warning: Top Secret!

Inspiration for the Netflix series Chico Bon Bon!

Inspiration for the Netflix series Chico Bon Bon!