Did you know about Nature

• Did you know a bear has 42 teeth
• Did you know an ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain
• Did you know lemons contain more sugar than strawberries
• Did you know 85% of plant life is found in the ocean
• Did you know rabbits like licorice
• Did you know a lobsters blood is colorless but when exposed to oxygen it turns blue
• Did you know armadillos have 4 babies at a time and are all the same sex
• Did you know reindeer like bananas
• Did you know the longest recorded flight of a chicken was 13 seconds
• Did you know birds need gravity to swallow
• Did you know a cat has 32 muscles in each ear
• Did you know goldfish can see both infrared and ultraviolet light
• Did you know cats spend 66% of their life asleep
• Did you know when lightning strikes it can reach up to 30,000 degrees celsius (54,000 degrees fahrenheit)
• Did you know spiders are arachnids and not insects
• Did you know each time you see a full moon you always see the same side
• Did you know the only continent with no active volcanoes is Australia
• Did you know Koalas sleep around 18 hours a day
• Did you know all insects have 6 legs
• Did you know African Grey Parrots have vocabularies of over 200 words
• Did you know a giraffe can clean its ears with its 21 inch tongue
• Did you know lightning strikes the Earth 6,000 times every minute
• Did you know fire usually moves faster uphill than downhill
• Did you know cats have over 100 vocal chords
• Did you know camel's milk doesn't curdle
• Did you know elephants sleep between 4 - 5 hours in 24 period
• Did you know it's possible to lead a cow up stairs but not down
• Did you know frogs can't swallow with their eyes open
• Did you know elephants are the only mammal that can't jump
• Did you know frogs don't usually swallow water (they absorb most of the moisture they need through their skin)
• Did you know at birth dalmations are always white
• Did you know hummingbirds are the only bird that can fly backwards
• Did you know a duck can't walk without bobbing its head
• Did you know a hummingbird's heart beats at over a 1,000 times a minute
• Did you know dragonflies have 6 legs but can't walk
• Did you know a crocodile can't move its tongue
• Did you know hippopotamuses have killed more people in Africa than any other animal
• Did you know an elephants ears are used to regulate body temperature
• Did you know crocodiles never outgrow their enclosure
• Did you know reindeer hair is hollow inside like a tube
• Did you know cows don't have upper front teeth
• Did you know an octopus pupil is rectangular
• Did you know cats can't move their jaw sideways
• Did you know its physically impossible for pigs to look up at the sky
• Did you know the Amazon rainforest produces half the world's oxygen supply
• Did you know a group of frogs is called an army
• Did you know a group of rhinos is called a crash
• Did you know a group of kangaroos is called a mob
• Did you know a group of whales is called a pod
• Did you know a group of geese is called a gaggle
• Did you know a group of owls is called a parliament
• Did you know Brazil is named after a tree
• Did you know Jamaica has 120 rivers
• Did you know a cats urine glows under a blacklight
• Did you know white cats with blue eyes are usually deaf
• Did you know cats have a peripheral vision of 285 degrees
• Did you know small dogs usually live longer than larger breeds
• Did you know domestic cats dislike citrus scents
• Did you know cats can jump up to 7 times their tail length
• Did you know tree hugging is forbidden in china
• Did you know Pearls melt in vinegar
• Did you know giraffes and rats can last longer without water than camels
• Did you know a crocodile can't stick out its tongue
• Did you know ostriches don't bury their heads in sand
• Did you know wonly female mosquitoes bite
• Did you know hummingbirds can't walk
• Did you know wind doesn`t make a sound until it blows against an object
• Did you know the naming of tropical storms and hurricanes officially began in 1953
• Did you know India is home to over 200 million cows
• Did you know Bali has the worlds largest variety of flora
• Did you know almonds are members of the peach family
• Did you know owls can't move their eyes from side to side
• Did you know gold never erodes
• Did you know scorpions glow under ultra violet light
• Did you know ants stretch when they wake up in the morning
• Did you know diamonds are the hardest natural substance
• Did you know the longest possible eclipse of the sun is 7.31 minutes
• Did you know Christmas trees originated from Germany
• Did you know more people die from falling coconuts then from shark attacks
• Did you know the Earth is struck by lightning over 100 times every second
• Did you know gorillas sleep 14 hours a day
• Did you know the lifespan of a squirrel is 9 years
• Did you know the stomach acids found in a snakes stomach can digest bones and teeth but not fur or hair
• Did you know a giraffe can go longer without water than a camel
• Did you know there are more chickens than people
• Did you know for every human there are 200 million insects
• Did you know emus can't walk backwards
• Did you know the average hen lays 228 eggs a year
• Did you know Oak trees don't produce acorns until they are 50 years old
• Did you know more people are allergic to cows milk than any other food
• Did you know more people are killed from bees than snakes
• Did you know the Atlantic Ocean is saltier than the Pacific
• Did you know the life span of a house fly is between 10 to 25 days
• Did you know a dolphins top speed is 60kmh (37mph)
• Did you know the smallest dog is the Chihuahua
• Did you know a sharks top speed is 70kmh (44mph)
• Did you know there are 70 million sheep in New Zealand (with 4 million people)
• Did you know the worlds smallest bird is the 'bee hummingbird' found in Cuba
• Did you know African elephants only have 4 teeth
• Did you know the rarest type of diamond is green
• Did you know men are stuck by lightning 7 times more than women
• Did you know carrots contain 0% fat
• Did you know the odds of being struck by lightning are 600,000 to 1
• Did you know it takes 1 alligator to make a pair of shoes and 3 for a pair of boots
• Did you know rain contains vitamin B12
• Did you know a flea can jump 350 times its body length
• Did you know cucumbers are 96% water.
• Did you know a full moon is 9 times brighter than a half moon
• Did you know a honeybee's top speed is 24kph (15mph)
• Did you know a humming bird flaps its wings up to 90 times a second (5,400 times a minute)
• Did you know flys always launch backwards for a quick getaway
• Did you know a cheetahs top speed is 114kph (70mph)
• Did you know horses sleep standing up
• Did you know a jellyfish is 95% water
• Did you know bats are the only mammals that fly
• Did you know a cat uses its whiskers to determine if a space is too small to squeeze through
• Did you know a snail can sleep for 3 years
• Did you know tigers have striped skin as well as fur
• Did you know crocodiles are colour blind
• Did you know a chameleons tongue is twice the length of its body
• Did you know dogs sweat through the pads on their feet
• Did you know hippopotamuses are born under water
• Did you know bananas grow pointing upwards.
• Did you know whales can't swim backwards
• Did you know camels are born without humps
• Did you know only female mosquitoes bite
• Did you know the average porcupine has 30,000 spikes
• Did you know tarantula spiders can survive 2 and a half years without food
• Did you know crocodiles are responsible for over a 1,000 deaths each year by the Banks of the Nile river
• Did you know there are more insects in the world than all other animals combined
• Did you know giraffes can't swim
• Did you know crocodiles swallow rocks to help them dive deeper
• Did you know an elephant's trunk can hold over 5 litres of water
• Did you know bull's can run faster uphill than down
• Did you know a shark's teeth are literally as hard as steel
• Did you know a moth has no stomach
• Did you know grasshoppers have white blood
• Did you know it takes 50 minutes to soft boil and two hours to hard boil an ostrich egg
• Did you know there is 200 times more gold in the world's oceans than has been mined
• Did you know the moon orbits the Earth every 27.32 days
• Did you know more than 75% of all countries are north of the equator
• Did you know The Dead Sea is actually an inland lake
• Did you know there are no rivers in Saudi Arabia
• Did you know dirty snow melts quicker than clean snow
• Did you know the water in the Dead Sea is so salty that its easier to float than sink
• Did you know the Moons diameter is 3,476km
• Did you know you have fewer muscles than a caterpillar
• Did you know giraffes have no vocal cords
• Did you know most birds eat twice their body weight each day
• Did you know a group of whales is called a pod
• Did you know armadillos can walk underwater
• Did you know the bones of a pigeon weigh less than its feathers
• Did you know the cheetah is the only cat that can't retract it's claws
• Did you know roosters can't crow if they can't fully extend their necks
• Did you know dolphins can hear underwater sounds from 24km (15miles) away
• Did you know flamingos can only eat when their heada are upside down
• Did you know the fingerprints of koala bear are indistinguishable to that of a human
• Did you know a female ferret is called a jill
• Did you know porcupines float in water
• Did you know turnips turn green when sunburnt
• Did you know you can only see a rainbow if you have your back to the sun
• Did you know 45,000 thunderstorms around the world occur every day
• Did you know most of the Vitamin C found in fruits is in the skin
• Did you know the typical wave height from Pacific tsunami is between 6 - 9 metres
• Did you know there are 2 chickens for every person
• Did you know there are a million ants for every person on Earth
• Did you know coconuts kill over 150 people each year (more than sharks)
• Did you know avocados have the most calories of any other fruit
• Did you know emus can't walk backwards
• Did you know the Earth weighs 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons
• Did you know 'Babe' was played by over 50 pigs
• Did you know giraffes has the highest blood pressure of any animal
• Did you know India has over 50 million monkeys
• Did you know ostriches have a 14 meter (46 foot) long small intestine
• Did you know your foot is the most common body part bitten by insects
• Did you know Japan is the largest exporter of frog legs
• Did you know the sun is 330,330 times larger than the Earth
• Did you know every year the sun loses 360 million tons
• Did you know the shell is 12% of an eggs weight
• Did you know a squid has 10 tentacles
• Did you know you're more likely to get stung by a bee on a windy day than any other
• Did you know the odds of being stuck by lighting is 280,000 to 1
• Did you know more people are killed by hippopotamuses then by lions, elephants and water buffalos combined
• Did you know a woodpeckers tongue can wrap around its head twice
• Did you know snakes can't blink
• Did you know ants don`t like baby powder (talcum powder)
• Did you know a rat can tread water for 3 days
• Did you know dolphins can kills sharks by ramming them with their snout
• Did you know sharks can sense a drop of blood from 4km (2.5miles) away
• Did you know bottle nosed whales can dive to a depth of 915 metres (3,000feet) in 2 minutes
• Did you know the only continent without reptiles or snakes is Antarctica
• Did you know Australia has the largest sheep population
• Did you know greyhounds can reach speeds of up to 67kph (42mph)
• Did you know you can tell the sex of a horse by its teeth (most males have 40, females 36)
• Did you know sharks never stop moving even when they sleep or rest
• Did you know greyhounds can see better than any other dog breed
• Did you know when 2 zebras stand side by side they usually face each other in opposite directions to keep an eye out for predators
• Did you know most cows produce more milk when they listen to music
• Did you know elephants communicate in sound waves below the frequency that humans can hear
• Did you know giant tortoises can live in captivity longer than any other animal
• Did you know snakes can't bite in rivers or swamps (they would drown otherwise)
• Did you know a blue whale can go up to 6 months without eating
• Did you know pelicans consume around a 1/3 of its body weight in a single meal
• Did you know gorillas can't swim
• Did you know house cats have 18 claws
• Did you know giraffes can't cough
• Did you know the Giant Pacific Octopus can squeeze its entire body through a hole the size of its beak
• Did you know deers don't like hay
• Did you know shrimps are all born male but slowly grow into females
• Did you know the average elephant produces 22kg (50 pounds) of dunn each day
• Did you know there are more than 50 different kinds of kangaroos
• Did you know the average lifespan of a squirrel is 9 years
• Did you know a platypus can eat its weight in worms every day
• Did you know spiders have transparent blood
• Did you know mosquitoes prefer children to adults and blondes to brunettes
• Did you know only 4 out of 20,000 species of bees produce honey
• Did you know March 14 is 'save a spider day'
• Did you know there are over 4,300 known species of ladybugs
• Did you know a fly's recation time is 30 milliseconds
• Did you know butterflies taste with their back feet
• Did you know moths have no stomach
• Did you know bees and house flies flap their wings 200 times a second
• Did you know bees have 4 wings
• Did you know the color of a chile pepper is no indication of its heat (usually the smaller the the hotter)
• Did you know 60 cows can produce a ton of milk each day
• Did you know there are over 15,000 different kinds of rice
• Did you know Canada has more lakes than any other country
• Did you know the largest island in the Mediterranean sea is Sicily
• Did you know 90% of all volcanic activity occurs in the ocean
• Did you know the Nile river flows North
• Did you know trees do not have life expectancies (most can grown indefinitely)
• Did you know rain contains vitamin B12
• Did you know over 500 meteorites hit the Earth each year
• Did you know clouds fly higher during the day than the night
• Did you know the Sun has a diameter of 1,390,176km (864,000miles)
• Did you know clothes dried outside smell better because of a process called photolysis (sunlight breaks down compounds that cause odor)
• Did you know Mercury is the only metal that is liquid at room temperature
• Did you know the Earth experiences over 50,000 earthquakes a year
• Did you know the average ice berg weighs 20,000,000 tons
• Did you know jellyfish don't have a brain
• Did you know 45% of Americans don't know that the sun is a star
• Did you know ferrets sleep between 18 - 20 hours a day
• Did you know a group of foxes is called a skulk
• Did you know a hippopotamus can run faster than a man
• Did you know a King Cobra is the biggest of all poisonous snakes and can grow to over 4 metres (13 feet) long
• Did you know lions in the wild usually makes no more than 20 kills a year
• Did you know a male baboon can kill a leopard
• Did you know rhinoceros have 3 toes on each foot
• Did you know a shrimp has 5 pairs of legs
• Did you know elephants can run up to 40kmh (25mph)
• Did you know baby rattlesnakes are born in August and September
• Did you know most snakes have 1 lung
• Did you know camels have 3 eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand
• Did you know the night vision of tigers is 6 times better than humans
• Did you know flamingoes can live up to 80 years old
• Did you know in Africa more people are killed by crocodiles than lions
• Did you know most dinosaurs lived to be more than 100 years old
• Did you know out of the 250+ known species of shark only 18 are known to be dangerous to man
• Did you know an ostriches can outrun a horse
• Did you know an ostriches life span is 40-45 years
• Did you know squirrels can climb trees faster than they can run on the ground
• Did you know wild cobras can live up to 20 years old
• Did you know the average cow produces 40 glasses of milk a day
• Did you know a blue whale can weigh as much as 30 elephants and as long as 3 large tour buses
• Did you know the greyhound is the fastest dog and can reach speeds of up to 72kph (45mph)
• Did you know the fastest fish in the sea is the swordfish and can reach up to speeds of 108kph (68mph, 59knots)
• Did you know female condors lays a single egg once every 2 years
• Did you know whippopotamuses have skin 3.8cm (1.5in) thick
• Did you know an arrow frog has enough poison to kill over 2,200 people
• Did you know whales have the slowest metabolism of all animals
• Did you know penguins are only found in the southern hemisphere primarily in Antarctica (excluding zoos above the equator)
• Did you know toads only eat moving prey
• Did you know when born a baby giraffe is 1.8m (6ft) tall
• Did you know a bear in hibernation loses up to 25% of its body weight
• Did you know pandas spend 12 hours a day eating bamboo
• Did you know crocodiles continually grow new sets of teeth to replace old ones
• Did you know the skeleton of an African elephant accounts for about 15% of its body weight
• Did you know there are over 1,600 known species of starfishes
• Did you know there are over 320 species of parrots
• Did you know there are over 40,000 muscles tendons in an elephant's trunk
• Did you know there are over 690 known species of bats
• Did you know there are over 130 species of owl
• Did you know a garfish has green bones
• Did you know a camel can shut its nostrils during a desert sandstorm
• Did you know a cat can keep purring while inhaling and exhaling
• Did you know the spikes of a newborn hedgehog begin to appear within 24 hours
• Did you know camels can drink 94 litres (25 gallons) of water in less than 3 minutes
• Did you know you can smell a skunk 1.6km (1 mile) away
• Did you know there are over 2,500 different types of mushrooms
• Did you know there are over 7,000 different types of apples
• Did you know thin skinned lemons are the juiciest
• Did you know on the average there are 8 peas in a pod
• Did you know you have to eat 5kg (11lb) of potatoes to put on .5kg (1lb) of weight (a potato has no more calories than an apple)
• Did you know a connected bunch of bananas is called a hand and individual bananas are called fingers
• Did you know cabbage is 91% water
• Did you know fresh apples float because they contain 25% air
• Did you know Antarctica is 98% ice and 2% barren rock
• Did you know Finland has the largest number of islands in the world (over 179,550)
• Did you know 80% of all people hit by lightning are men
• Did you know the only thing that can destroy a diamond is intense heat
• Did you know brontology is the study of thunder
• Did you know diamonds mined in Brazil are much harder than those found in Africa
• Did you know a bumble bee flaps its wings at 160 times a second
• Did you know a dragonfly can fly at 40kph (25mph)
• Did you know flies can react to an object it sees and change direction in less than 30 milliseconds
• Did you know a queen bee can lay up to 3,000 eggs in one day
• Did you know ants can lift 50 times their own weight
• Did you know bees can see ultraviolet light
• Did you know 80% of the world's food crops are pollinated by insects
• Did you know w10% of with world's food supply is consumed by insects
• Did you know it takes 110 silkworm cocoons to make an average tie
• Did you know queen termites can live up to 50 years
• Did you know most spiders have transparent blood
• Did you know caterpillars have over 2,000 muscles
• Did you know the fastest insect is the Australian dragon fly (its top speed is 57 km/h (35mp/h))
• Did you know honey bees kill more people each year than snakes
• Did you know there are over 100,000 different species of butterflies
• Did you know there are over 80,000 different species of ants
• Did you know all the planets in our solar system could fit inside Jupiter
• Did you know an area of the Suns surface to the equivalent of a postage stamp would shine with the brightness of over 1,500,000 candles
• Did you know more than 1,000,000 Earths could fit inside the Sun
• Did you know natural gas has no smell (the odor is artificially added so that people are able to identify leaks)
• Did you know rainbows can only be seen in the morning or late afternoon (the sun needs to be less than 40 above the horizon)
• Did you know acorns are poisonous to humans (if eaten it can cause damage to your kidneys)
• Did you know all hurricanes form over the sea and can last up to 10 days
• Did you know there are over 225,000 trees in New York's Central Park
• Did you know chalk is made from tiny plankton fossils
• Did you know 80% of the world's rose species come from Asia
• Did you know every living thing on the Earth contains carbon
• Did you know the Pacific Ocean is the world's largest
• Did you know it takes 5 years for an oyster to produce a medium sized pearl
• Did you know the average mature oak tree sheds over 700,000 leaves in Autumn
• Did you know onions are part of the lily family
• Did you know the primary reason for growing rice in flooded paddies is to drown the weeds surrounding the young seedlings (rice can grow in well drained areas)
• Did you know the softest known mineral is talc
• Did you know 20% of China's plants are used in medicine
• Did you know 2/3 of the world's eggplants are grown in the US New Jersey
• Did you know humans are the only primates that don't have pigment in the palms of their hands
• Did you know moths have white blood
• Did you know the diameter of Jupiter is 152,800km (88 700 miles)
• Did you know the diameter of Earth is 12,756 km (7,926 miles)
• Did you know the diameter of the sun is 1,390,000km (865,000 miles)
• Did you know Mount Everest is 8.9km (5.5 miles) high
• Did you know dolphin's can detect underwater sounds from 24 km (15 miles) away
• Did you know dinosaurs lived on Earth for over 165 million years before they became extinct
• Did you know jellyfish have been on Earth for over 650 million years
• Did you know only pregnant females polar bears hibernate
• Did you know polar bears are strictly carnivores
• Did you know sharks have been on Earth for over 400 million years
• Did you know some dinosaurs had tails over 13m (45 feet) long
• Did you know the average age of a polar bear in the wild is 17 years
• Did you know the tallest mammal is the giraffe
• Did you know warthogs can reach speeds of 48km/h (29mph)
• Did you know warthogs live for 15 years
• Did you know when baby polar bear cubs are born they cannot see or hear for their first month
• Did you know less than 20% of shark attacks are fatal
• Did you know raindrops are not tear shaped (they more resemble the shape of a tiny hamburger bun)
• Did you know the algae found in the world's oceans produces nearly 50% of the world's oxygen
• Did you know chameleons can move their eyes in two directions at the same time
• Did you know a chameleon's tongue is twice as long as its body
• Did you know a newborn kangaroo is about 1 inch in tall
• Did you know a woodpecker can peck 20 times a second
• Did you know catfish have over 100,000 taste buds
• Did you know the world's smallest mammal is the bumblebee bat of Thailand
• Did you know banana plants are the largest plants without a woody stem (they belong to the same family as lilies, orchids and palms)
• Did you know bananas are a good source of vitamin C, potassium and fiber
• Did you know bananas contain no fat, cholesterol or sodium
• Did you know mosquitoes dislike citronella because it irritates their feet
• Did you know mosquitoes prefer children to adults and blondes to brunettes
• Did you know no two spider webs are the same
• Did you know there are over 900,000 known species of insects
• Did you know worker ants may live for 7 years and the queen up to 15
• Did you know coffee trees produce its first full crop after 5 years old
• Did you know Europe is the only continent without a desert
• Did you know in 1872 Yellowstone in the US was the world's first national park
• Did you know the most abundant metal in the Earth's crust is aluminum
• Did you know the average life span of a mosquito is 2 weeks
• Did you know sea water is approximately 3.5% salt
• Did you know there are over 900 species of bats
• Did you know after bananas a zoo gorilla's favorite food is celery
• Did you know the African Rock Python can survive 2 years without eating
• Did you know the average American will consume over 465 trees worth of paper over their lifetime
• Did you know ostrich meat is the leanest of all red meats
• Did you know banana plants can grow as high as 6 meters (20 feet) tall
• Did you know the grapefruit gets its name from the way it grows in clusters like grapes on a vine
• Did you know a pumpkin really is a fruit
• Did you know brontophobia is the fear of thunderstorms
• Did you know dendrophobia is the fear of trees
• Did you know gatophobia is the fear of cats
• Did you know heliophobia is the fear of sunlight
• Did you know helminthophobia is the fear of worms
• Did you know herpetophobia is the fear of reptiles
• Did you know hippophobia is the fear of horses
• Did you know ichthyophobia is the fear of fish
• Did you know melissophobia is the fear of bees
• Did you know myrmecophobia is the fear of ants
• Did you know ombrophobia is the fear of rain
• Did you know ornithophobia is the fear of birds
• Did you know a lions feed once every 3 to 4 days
• Did you know lion's can't roar until the age of 2
• Did you know all owls lay white eggs
• Did you know the winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze over completely
• Did you know all snakes are carnivorous
• Did you know the tentacles of the giant arctic jellyfish can reach 36.6 meters (120 feet)
• Did you know diamonds are the hardest substance known to man
• Did you know when hydrogen burns in the air water is formed
• Did you know due to gravitational effects you weigh is slightly less when the moon is directly overhead
• Did you know hydrogen is the most abundant element in the Universe (75%)
• Did you know the moon is 27% the size of the Earth
• Did you know the center of the Sun is approximately 15 million C (27 million F)
• Did you know sun light can penetrate clean ocean water up to a depth of 73m (240 feet)
• Did you know cheetahs can accelerate from 0 to 70 km/h (43mp/h) in 3 seconds
• Did you know the oldest cockroach fossils are over 280 million years old
• Did you know there are over 97,000 km (60,000 miles) of blood vessels in the average person

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