Aug 19

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How Are Rockets Safe? 🚀

Fun Kids

About this episode

This Week’s Big Questions!

You’ve been sending in your brilliantly curious questions, and this week…

🚀 How are rockets safe?
🦴 Do humans have the same sized skeleton?
🧼 How does soap clean hands?
⚛️ How do we know what's inside an atom?
🦠 How does your body fight viruses?

And join Professor Hallux at his help desk as he answers the weird and wonderful questions you’ve always wanted to know the answers to! This time we find out all about earwax!

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