User:Donovan Depoint Pettine/sandbox

This Wikipedia account is for, if you want to know some interesting facts about Math, History, Science and much more. What I say is true and if it is not then send me a message. So I hope you learn something interesting to teach to someone else.

So lets get into some facts. In Iceland you are not allowed to name your daughter or son Harriet or Duncan.Why well because you can't conjugate Harriet in Icelandic. You can't name your son Duncan because there is "d." In the Icelandic alphabet. Funny story one family couldn't renew there daughters passport because her name was Harriet and she had a brother named Duncan. So now the children have to be known as girl or boy in the airport as said on their passport.

The reason that captain James Cook was so successful was he used vitamin C. Your probably not believing it but it is true, because he used citrus fruits they had way less chance of getting scurvy. Even a slave would get a lemon to eat. Captain James Cook was the first captain to have a single person not get scurvy. That's why his three voyages were so successful. He found the Great Barrier Reef, actually crashed into it. He was the first to map New Zealand but hos most famous was finding the Hawaiian islands.

Do you know why Easter Island is named Easter Island? When Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen landed on the island 1722 April,5. He named it Easter Island. So there are no little bunnies running around secretly at night. The islands native name is Rapa Nui. If you don't know what Easter Island is then follow this link.