This Is Not A Peg by Alice Kell

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THIS IS NOT A PEG

Alice Kell


A group of crabs is called a cast A crab may lose a claw or leg in a fight In time the claw or leg grows back The largest crab in the world is the giant Japanese Spider Crab which can measure up to thirteen feet across Crabs are also known as spiders of the sea becaus like crabs spiders have legs that bend at joints 1.


Paradise ducks of New Zealand often have one mating partner for life Their webbed feet have no nerves or blood vessels ren, der-ing them i capable of feel, ing the cold

 ducks can be found on every cotinent ex, cept for Antarctica Ducks sleep with half their brains awake Ducks can detect predators in less than a second 2.


Spain and It, aly were the first countries to adopt the fork as a utensil to be used at the table to eat with rather than just for serv, ing

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It is against the law to eat chicken with a fork in Gainesville Georgia the which is also the Chicken Capital of the World 4.


Punks original definition in the sixteenth centry was prostitute It then came to mean homosexual in the early twentieth century then kid and then young criminal Punks wore swastika symbols to shock and diturb the WWII generation jazz musicians in the fiftiess sported mo, hawks well bfore the style caught on with punks in the late seventies and eighties

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 Hammers have been used since the Stone Ages and were made of rock used for carving and breaking items including stone wood and bone 6.


Crocodiles sweat through their mouths Ninetynine per cent of crocodile offspring are eaten in the fir Crocodile skin is considered one of the finest,treasured for it Some tribes in New Guinea give themselves scarring to match t Crocodiles first appeared two hundred and fourty million years Crying crocodile tears comes from the myth that the reptiles w but only because their eyes bubble and froth when eating

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There are over five thousand species of dragonflies Dragonflies can hover in one place fly extremely fast and even fly backwards They are some of the fastest flying insects in the world reaching speeds of over thirty miles per hour Dragonflies come in a variety of colors including blue green yellow and red. They are some of the most colorful insects on the planet They have been around for three hubdred million years Pre, historic dragonflies were much larger and could have a wingspan of two and a half feet When first hatched the larva or nymphs live in the water for around a year Once they leave the water and begin to fly they only live for around a month People in Indonesia like to eat them for a snack Having a dragonfly land on your head is considered good luck They are not really related to common flies

rst year after birth by large fishherons and adult crocodiles durability and softness It a sign of status in tribal societies that of a crocodile skin s ago and can live up to eighty years weep when eating humans...They do wipe their eyes when feeding

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Paint brush bristles are made out of... Ox Hair Camel Hair Bristle hair from European and Asian hogs Goat Hair and Synthetics fibers like Nylon


The first sunglasses date back to twentieth century China where flat crystals of smoky quartz were mounted for personal use to reduce the glare from the sun The term glasses originated from the fact that most corrective lenses were actually made of glass today most glasses are made from some variety of plastic Roughly twenty five percentof the total population require eyeglasses

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Alice Kell alicelskell@gmail.com @alice_kell_ illustration


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