Fun facts about Mummies, Inventions, Senses, and Food 🏺💡👀🍕

Sleep Tight Science - A Bedtime Science Show For Kids

Sleep Tight Media

Kids & Family, Education For Kids

4.4 • 613 Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

In this fun facts episode, we will learn the secrets of the senses, ranging from flies tasting with their feet to owls hearing a mouse step on a twig from 23 meters away. Then, we will explore the world of inventions, learning how creativity, curiosity, and even accidents can lead to amazing discoveries like Band-Aids. We will also travel back in time to learn about mummies—how they were made, where they can be found, and even the strange and surprising ways nature preserves them. Finally, we will finish with some tasty food facts. Sleep Tight!, Sheryl & Clark ❤️👂📖 --- Support Us 👉 Join Premium for AD FREE listening and extra bedtime stories! 👉 Sleep Tight Premium is now available in Apple Podcasts! 🎉 ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Leave a review wherever you listen to podcasts, or share our podcast with your friends. 📢 Have an interesting science topic you would like to investigate? Send us an email at [email protected] , and we may feature it in an upcoming show. --- About Sleep Tight Science We’ve got bedtime down to a (Sleep Tight) Science! Sleep Tight Science is an engaging bedtime show that makes science accessible and enjoyable for the whole family. Snuggle in and drift off to sleep while learning about science topics submitted by listeners! Designed for curious young minds (but simple enough for grown-ups to understand), Sleep Tight Science uses big words to answer big questions that kids wonder about, like why do we feel icky sometimes and how do our legs help us move? Learn something new about the natural world while drifting off to dreamland. Have an interesting science question or a topic you’re curious about? Email us at [email protected], and it might just be the focus of an upcoming episode! Dedicated to enhancing the health and happiness of children, Sleep Tight Media helps families replace bedtime struggles with bedtime snuggles. -- Made in Canada 🇨🇦 Advertising provided by Starglow Media. Learn more about Starglow Media here

Transcript

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0:00.0	You're listening to Sleep Tight Science.
0:03.0	Did you know that the longest?
0:17.5	Did you know that the longest hiccup attack lasted 68 years?
0:21.6	What?
0:22.6	Charles Osborne started hiccuping in 1922 and didn't stop until 1990.
0:31.6	That might be 430 million hiccups.
0:47.3	Hello, friends, and welcome back to Sleep Tight Science,
0:51.9	a bedtime show that answers your questions about science.
1:01.0	In this episode, we will learn about mummies, inventions, our senses, and food. In one of our favorite formats, lists of facts.
1:07.0	We have a whole bunch of science books in our library, and we have been reading through them finding out all kinds of things
1:14.6	that we hope you might find interesting too.
1:18.6	And you never know, maybe you can impress your friends, parents, or teachers,
1:24.6	with all this new knowledge.
1:26.6	Or maybe you might want to learn more from a book or on our
1:32.3	show. Up first is mummies. When you think of mummies, you might picture spooky bandaged figures
1:43.1	from movies or Halloween.
1:45.6	However, real mummies have an incredible history that stretches back thousands of years.
1:53.9	Mummies aren't just found in ancient Egypt.
1:57.4	They've been discovered all over the world,
2:00.3	from the frozen mountains of the Andes to the bogs of Europe and the dry deserts of China.
2:07.6	So what exactly is a mummy?
2:12.6	A mummy is a body preserved so well that it doesn't decay, like most things do over time.
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