Did You Know? - Nature - Part 3
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- 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 ostriches can live up to 75 years old
- Did you know sheep won't drink from running water
- 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 hippopotamuses 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 a fox litter is 10 to 15 pups
- 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 10% 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 the Moon weighs 81 billion tons
- 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 it takes 40 minutes to hard boil an ostrich egg
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