Did You Know...
02/15/2022
The nursery rhyme "Mary Had a Little Lamb" is based on a true story. The girl in the rhyme is Mary Sawyer who, as a young girl, hid her pet lamb in a basket under her desk after it followed her to school. The rhyme was later written down, as a poem, by one of her classmates.
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