Curious About Umbrellas

Curious Kid Podcast

Bleav + Olivia

Kids & Family, Kids, Learning, Education, Family, Education For Kids

4.6 • 653 Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2021

⏱️ 8 minutes

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In episode 124, we get curious about umbrellas for Sadie of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. We learn what umbrellas do, how they are different from parasols, and how one man was responsible for making umbrellas popular for other men to use around the world. Send Us An E-mail - [email protected] Us A Voicemail - 856-425-2324Support Us On Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/CuriouskidpodcastShop Curious Kid Podcast Merchandise - http://tee.pub/lic/fqXchg3wUVUFollow Us On Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/curiouskidpod/Follow Us On Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/curiouskidpodcast/Follow Us On Twitter - https://twitter.com/CuriousKidPod

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back to the Curious Kid podcast.
0:25.8	For this week's listener suggestion, we are heading up north and reading an email we received from a listener in Canada.
0:34.1	Mail bag.
0:36.8	Mail bag. Mail bag.
0:40.7	Hello Curious Kid Podcast from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
0:45.8	My daughter, Sadie and I have recently discovered your podcast and have been listening to past episodes.
0:53.1	We love it.
0:54.6	Sadie has a suggestion for a future episode.
0:57.9	She would like to get curious about umbrellas.
1:01.2	Who invented them?
1:02.6	How did people keep dry before umbrellas?
1:05.6	Are there other ways to use umbrellas?
1:08.1	Thanks so much and keep up the great work.
1:11.1	Thanks for the email, Sadie. We are so happy you've found the podcast and we can't wait to get
1:16.5	curious about umbrellas for you. And we are going to answer all your questions about umbrellas.
1:22.5	On top of that, we are going to answer the question of the week, which is... The question of the week is, what country has the wettest place in the world?
1:33.4	I'll give you a clue. The wettest place on earth is a village called Mossenrum.
1:38.3	I'm about to give you a number you won't believe.
1:41.0	The village of Moss and Rum gets about 467 inches of rain yearly. That's 39 feet of
1:48.8	rain. Can you guess what country Moss and Rum is located in? The reason we are talking about rainfall is
1:55.5	because umbrellas are used to protect people from the rain. Umbrellas were invented in China thousands of years ago.
2:03.6	We know this because excavations have discovered ancient umbrellas,
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