Did You Know? - Nature - Part 4
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- 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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