Cracked Egg Trivia

Thanksgiving is in a few days and it seems fitting to learn about one of its main staples, the turkey. Try not to feel too guilty digging in at dinner after you read it since we'll be talking about the wild turkey not the domestic turkey that most people eat on the holidays. Wild turkeys can normally be found in the forest, but they have been known to live in grasslands and even swamps. By day turkeys spend their time foraging for food. Their diet consists of seeds, berries, nuts, insects, and sometimes salamanders. By night the turkeys sleep just like us except instead of a bed they rest on low branches of trees. When it is time for a female to reproduce she mates with a male, who does not help with the raising of the chicks, and makes herself a cozy nest in the woods, normally under a bush. She then lays her eggs which can be anywhere from 4 to 17 at a time. They take about a month to hatch, and when they do they're unable to fly for two weeks, during which time the mothe...

The Odobenus rosmarus, also known as the walrus, can be found in various regions depending on which subspecies they belong to. There are Atlantic walruses and Pacific walruses. The Atlantic walruses live anywhere from northeastern Canada to Greenland, their counterparts in the Pacific live in areas from the Bering Sea to the Chukchi Sea during winter and migrate northwards towards the seas off of Alaska and Russia in the spring months. Walruses are known for their tusks, but they are there for more than show. Their tusks, which are actually canine teeth, are used to poke holes in the ice to hunt for food as well as to help them climb out of the water. The tusks grow throughout the walruses life, and can reach a length of about a meter. Males have larger tusks than females, and the males with the largest tusks tend to lead the herd. Walruses have a lifespan of about 20 to 30 years in the wild, and their life starts when they are born after a 15 to 16 month gestation period. This g...

Hannah Hoes was born on March 8, 1783, to Johannes Dircksen Hoes and Maria Quakenbush in Kinderhook, New York. She was raised in a Dutch home like her future husband Martin Van Buren, and Dutch was her first language. She received her education at a local Kinderhook school, and was taught by master Vrouw Lange. Hannah married her childhood sweetheart Martin Van Buren on February 21, 1807, in Catskill, New York at her sister and brother-in-law's home. The couple had six children together, five boys including one that died at infancy and one stillborn daughter. Hannah died of tuberculosis at the age of 35 on February 5, 1819. Angelica Singleton was born on February 13, 1816, to Richard Singleton and Rebecca Travis Coles Singleton. Angelica was first educated from 1826 to 1830 at Columbia Female Academy in South Carolina before she received further learning at Madame Grelaud's Seminary for Young Ladies in Philadelphia, there she would have learned French and a lot abou...