Some types of silkworm have 8 brains! There is enough fat in a human body to make seven bars of soap.
More people eat sharks than sharks eat people.
It would take 224,460,000 men stacked on each others shoulders to reach the moon.
An electric eel can produce enough elecricity to knock out a small horse for hours.
In a lifetime, an average person eats 50,000 kilograms of food.
Eating fried mice was once a popular cure for smallpox.
A thunderstorm in france once killed all the black sheep in a flock but left the white ones unharmed!
Happy birthday is the most frequently sung song in the world, and it is still subject to copyright.
When hurricane Andrew hit Florida, it caused 22million dollars worth of damage.
The strange welwitschia plant grows in desert regions. It can live for up to 2000 years.
Insects can see movements that take place in as little as 1/1000TH of a second.
The giant spider crab is the largest crustacean in the world. Its claw span is 3.7 metres
The worlds largest starfish measures 1.38 metres from tip to tip, though its centre is only 26mm in diameter.
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